Leadership and Managing


Recent Leadership and Managing Articles

Let There Be Light - or Doors

By Robert A. Mamis |  Jul 1, 1993

Company put executives in cubicles with doors and lower ranks in doorless window offices to be equitable.  Read more

The Best Small Companies to Work for in America

By John Kerr |  Jul 1, 1993

Summary of ways in which some companies are creating workplaces that employees love.  Read more

Best Career Advancement: Bottoms Up

By Donna Fenn |  Jul 1, 1993

How some companies boost their employees' careers by growing them in the jobs they already have.  Read more

Best Job Autonomy: People Power

By Jay Finegan |  Jul 1, 1993

How some companies give their employees job autonomy to capitalize on their first-hand knowledge of their jobs.  Read more

Best Training: School's In

By Tom Ehrenfeld |  Jul 1, 1993

How some companies tap valuable labor sources their competitors can't touch by training their employees well.  Read more

Best Compensation: Cashing In

By Tom Ehrenfeld |  Jul 1, 1993

Pay alone does not qualify a company as a great place to work.  Read more

The Dual-Purpose Sales Supervisor's Checklist

By Martha E. Mangelsdorf |  Jul 1, 1993

One-page review sheet ensures sales people get the guidance they need and helps supervisors learn how to give it.  Read more

Insurer as Prevention Partner

By Phaedra Hise |  Jul 1, 1993

How a company cut insurance premiums in half by controlling the causes of worker injury.  Read more

Get an Adjustable Life

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jul 1, 1993

Adjustable life-insurance policies make sense for cash-strapped owners of growing companies.  Read more

Best Work and Life: One Life to Live

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jul 1, 1993

How some companies acknowledge and foster their employees' lives outside the office.  Read more

Network: June 1993

By Karen E. Carney |  Jun 1, 1993

Network questions and answers.  Read more

Why Companies Fail

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jun 1, 1993

Judgment calls, reality tests and mistakes of the heart that doom companies to failure.  Read more

Who's on Board?

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jun 1, 1993

Chart showing the backgrounds of outside board members.  Read more

Effective Boards

By Ellyn E. Spragins |  Jun 1, 1993

Reasons for establishing a board of advisers and tips on adviser compensation.  Read more

Planning Your Exit

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jun 1, 1993

Management considerations that will help prepare your company for sale.  Read more

Diary of a Small-Company Owner

By Anita F. Brattina |  Jun 1, 1993

Part two of the journal of a company owner, who, with the help of an outside board, struggles to grow her company.  Read more

Marketing Through Employers

By Susan Greco |  Jun 1, 1993

A newsletter start-up taps consumer markets by piggybacking on large companies.  Read more

Fostering Support from Spouses

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jun 1, 1993

Company invites employees' spouses to annual shareholders' meetings to encourage their support.  Read more

Equity from Likely Employees

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jun 1, 1993

Company founders raised start-up capital by offering stock to their former colleagues and future employees.  Read more

Local Taxes 1, Businesses 0

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1993

Chart showing most companies' taxes have increased in last three years, but tax personnel head count has decreased.  Read more

Network: June 1993

By Karen E. Carney |  Jun 1, 1993

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Safe Self-Insurance

By Michael P. Cronin |  Jun 1, 1993

Company reduced insurance costs by reducing coverage, raising the deductible and self-insuring the difference.  Read more

Who's Most Likely to Go It Alone?

By Alessandra Bianchi |  May 1, 1993

Nine demographic, psychographic and behavioral characteristics that predispose one toward entrepreneurship.  Read more

Why It's Easier to Start than to Sell a Business

By Eric Kriss |  May 1, 1993

A first-person account of the emotional stress many founders encounter when they sell their businesses.  Read more

Calling All Techies

By Alessandra Bianchi |  May 1, 1993

A new company serves as an incubator, venture network and consulting firm for entrepreneurs and inventors.  Read more

The Diary of a Small-Company Owner

By Anita F. Brattina |  May 1, 1993

First of a two-part series detailing an entrepreneur's use of an outside board as she struggles to grow her company.  Read more

Even the CFO Sells

By Susan Greco |  May 1, 1993

How one CEO uses team selling to gain instant credibility and lower selling costs.  Read more

Leading Not into Temptation

By Michael P. Cronin |  May 1, 1993

A company owner offers no-questions-asked loans to his employees to prevent them from selling information.  Read more

Downtime's Silver Lining

By Michael P. Cronin |  May 1, 1993

One company takes advantage of its downtime by using the chance to train workers rather than lay them off.  Read more

Hiring Through Resume Databases

By Phaedra Hise |  May 1, 1993

Comparison of the results produced by three resume-search services.  Read more

Getting the Most from a Retreat

By Michael P. Cronin |  May 1, 1993

One family business's successful retreat demonstrates the key issues to consider in planning such a retreat.  Read more

Stock Options for All

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  May 1, 1993

Guidelines for implementing a stock-option plan for all employees.  Read more

New DOS Compresses and Protects

By Robert A. Mamis |  May 1, 1993

MS-DOS 6.0 software compresses data, simplifies backup, manages memory, detects viruses and transfers files.  Read more

The Book of Life

By Charles Boer |  May 1, 1993

The author recounts the business lessons to be learned from 15th century sage Marsilio Ficino's The Book of Life.  Read more

Charity Begins at Home

By Phaedra Hise |  Apr 1, 1993

Various ways in which small businesses give back to their communities and why.  Read more