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Safety Rules the Agenda

Jan 1, 1995

The topics you choose to address at meetings say more about your concerns than any posters ormemos, particularly with major issues like cost consciousness...  Read more

Tame the Open-Meeting Beast

Jan 1, 1995

Busy people resent few things more than having to attend a meeting with an open agenda--or,just as bad, a nebulous one. The best meetings have a clear foc...  Read more

Keeping It Brief

Jan 1, 1995

It's not easy to keep blowhards from dominating staff meetings, and it can be difficult to muster the diplomacy tomuzzle those people. Even without loudmo...  Read more

Retreat for Brainstorming Day

Jan 1, 1995

Employees often know the most about how to solve growth-related problems? you just need togive them the opportunity to make suggestions. One way to...  Read more

SCORE with Mentors

Jan 1, 1995

Need advice on planning, marketing, pricing? Many people find informal advisers who help guide them, butthere are also formal ways to hook up with mentors...  Read more

Plant an Accountability Tree

By Inc. staff |  Jan 1, 1995

As a company grows, it can become tough to keep track of who's responsible for what. "You have people constantly crossingfunctional lines," says Thomas G....  Read more

Hone Your Own Handbook

Jan 1, 1995

There comes a time in every company's growth when an employee manual becomes essential. "Whether they are explicit or not, companies already have policies...  Read more

Inside Info on Outside Rivals

Jan 1, 1995

Be sure your employees are up-to-date on what your competitors are up to.  Read more

Do-It-(Mostly) -Yourself PR

Jan 1, 1995

Barb Oakley couldn't afford a full-service public relations firm when her company, FireFly Flashcards, was a start-up in Utica,Mich. The company she'd app...  Read more

Family Business: On Common Ground

By Susan Greco |  Jan 1, 1995

Some suggestions for setting up councils of family members for running family businesses.  Read more

Committing to Your Board

Jan 1, 1995

If you're going to have a company board--formal or informal, with liability or not--you must committo spending time regularly on board-related matters. Wi...  Read more

Educated Guesses

Jan 1, 1995

If you're like many CEOs, your idea of a good candidate for the board of directors is a no-nonsense executive.That's fine, but to judge by Joe Crugnale's ...  Read more

Limits on Lawyers

Jan 1, 1995

Lawyers make good advisers, but their role should be clarified before they're invited to join the board ofdirectors. The trouble, says Dennis O'Connor, a ...  Read more

Passing Ideas to Customers

Jan 1, 1995

Good ideas have a way of slipping through the cracks if there's no method for collecting and distributing them. At Berthelot &Associates, a management-con...  Read more

Employees from Hell

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jan 1, 1995

A look at problems employers face from employees seeking legal suits, and some ways to guard against such suits.  Read more

Compensation: Round-the-Clock Incentives

By Susan Greco |  Jan 1, 1995

A president offers his views on incentive he pays for extra work done during the year, month, week, day, and hour.  Read more

Compensation: Upping the Hourly Ante

By Susan Greco |  Jan 1, 1995

A CEO details a program that awards hourly employees with bonuses that range from $.05 to $1.35 an hour.  Read more

When Every Employee's an Entrepreneur

Jan 1, 1995

The best thing you can do for your employees may have nothing to do with compensation, benefits, or training. Instead, it may be to help them understand t...  Read more

A Business Plan for Life

Jan 1, 1995

Most entrepreneurs are careful about making sure they know where their companies are going and how what they're doing today in the business will have apay...  Read more

A Personal Search

Jan 1, 1995

Why do people start businesses? Sometimes for money, sometimes to find independence, but often because of something more deeply rooted. Catherine"Kye" And...  Read more

Alternatives to Drug Testing

Jan 1, 1995

Drug testing is routinely criticized as being invasive, expensive, and inaccurate. Moreover, it might notcatch other, very real, problems. "The majority o...  Read more

Heading Off Court

Jan 1, 1995

It's not as if Atlanta Legal Copies were a hotbed of employee lawsuits. It's not, but considering today's litigiousclimate, management isn't taking chance...  Read more

Libation Liability

Jan 1, 1995

Lawyers advise companies to set clear policies about drinking on site.  Read more

The Flextime Request Form

Jan 1, 1995

The #1 issue for employees trying to balance work and personal life isflextime -- alternative work arrangements that allow them more control over their sc...  Read more

The High-Tech Suggestion Box

Jan 1, 1995

Companies in which most employees work at networked computers can take advantage of the link tocreate an updated version of the old suggestion box. The ne...  Read more

Free Time Is Fruitful Time

Jan 1, 1995

If you're planning a company retreat, don't make the mistake of scheduling meetings from dawn todusk in a misguided attempt to justify the expense of the ...  Read more

Annual One-Page Game Plan

Jan 1, 1995

Elyria Foundry was losing $3 million a year on revenues of $4 million when Gregg Fosterpurchased it in 1983. As the company got back on track, Foster bega...  Read more

Financials for Insiders

Jan 1, 1995

It's probably safe to assume that most investors know how to read a financial statement,but if the owners of your company are your employees ? as is the c...  Read more

Sharing What You've Customized

Jan 1, 1995

Off-the-shelf software programs often just don't do the trick. A company has tomake an investment ? either by hiring consultants or by devoting personnel ...  Read more

Celebrate Safe Days

Jan 1, 1995

Shop floor accidents are costly in so many ways -- injured employees, lost work time, blips in productivity, increases in workers' compensation insurance ...  Read more

Reach the Pros with House Calls

Jan 1, 1995

You'll always do better looking for new hires if you focus your search. Accu Bite Dental Supply, a 29-employeedental-products distributor, in Williamston,...  Read more

Hardball Interviewing

Jan 1, 1995

Most CEOs aren't as hardcore about hiring as Richard Rose of Dataflex, but then most CEOs can't boast a sales force thatroutinely outsells its industry av...  Read more

Finding Their Own Replacements

Jan 1, 1995

Having employees hire the people they'll be working with can be the best way to ensure that teams function well together. AtJohnsonville Foods, a manufact...  Read more

Getting to the Truth

Jan 1, 1995

The litigation explosion has made it harder to get candid references for job applicants, as former employers grownervous about possible lawsuits from thei...  Read more

Tap Youthful Enthusiasm

Jan 1, 1995

If you're not using student interns, you're missing a huge opportunity, says Patrick Daw, president of $1.4-million Triad LLC, in Glastonbury, Conn. Becau...  Read more