No matter what your management style, participatory, directing or teamwork, four broad management functions are demanded of you. As a manager, your primary tasks involve managing people who are ...

When I ask leaders and teams to concisely summarize their company’s management approach, the pause I get hangs in the air like a frisbee tossed on a windy day. No one seems to know which direction the ...

The conventional view of a manager is someone who controls and directs his employees. Management theorists still cite controlling as one of the four management functions. Despite this label, ...

Equipment management is a complex and difficult task that affects almost every aspect of a company’s operations. The skills required vary from the master mechanic to the finance specialist and ...

You can put Doc's name on the list of people glad to see Windows 7 finally hit streets and hard disks everywhere. I'll leave it to those more pundity than I to assess the overall value of Windows 7, ...

Last month I had the privilege of speaking at Worldz — an annual gathering of thousands of the world's most influential marketing, cultural and business leaders — with a friend and client partner, who ...

In my last article I pointed out possible downsides to consolidating control of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) purchasing into a corporate group. The message there wasn’t meant to be that ...

Smith College today announced that it would shift from outsourcing its endowment management functions to establishing its own in-house investment office. The decision, which follows more than a year ...

Kacy Karl Owsley, senior vice president, treasury management sales manager, Cadence Bank Business owners who are trying to grow their companies are focused on getting to the next level, and treasury ...