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Believe it or not, employment ads by businesses and recruiters are increasingly showing up with phrases like these: No unemployed candidates will be considered. Applicants must be currently employed. While there is no hard data on the...

While managing expenses is extremely important in this economy, it’s also critical to look at the other factor in the profitability equation – increasing revenues. Revenues drive your business, and your products and services drive your revenues....

The age of technology has brought about many good things. The ability to search, find, save and retrieve information in a flash has made us more efficient in many ways. But, it has also opened us up to risks we may not have anticipated. For years,...

It used to be that a disgruntled employee might sabotage the company by damaging equipment or stealing important papers. It was clear what needed to be guarded. But nowadays, the same employee can wreak far more vengeance while sitting quietly at a...

It’s a simple fact of business today – customers need a break when they can get it. And if you’re a business owner, you’re most likely a customer, too. You’ve probably dealt with the same vendors for years – and perhaps have grown to take each...

High corporate integrity pays off. The shareholders of businesses that encourage their employees to report misconduct receive returns that are 5 percent higher than shareholders of competing companies that do not support this kind of open...

Although internal controls are designed to protect a company against fraudulent schemes by its employees, all too often those controls prove to be ineffective. This happens most frequently when senior personnel in the company collude to cover up a...

Virtual teams, remote workers, telecommuters – whatever name you call them – the practice is becoming more commonplace. For good reason. Allowing employees to work remotely saves the company rent, utilities and cleaning services. It gives you a...

Toxic managers can ruin a business from the inside out. Toxic managers don’t have a clue how their behavior affects their employees, or don’t care. They are self-interested, have big egos and don’t respond well to feedback about their behavior....

Onboarding. The word is reminiscent of the golden days of train travel. But it’s also the current shorthand for new employee orientation. The Society for Human Resource Management defines onboarding as “the process by which new hires get adjusted...

Running out of space in your office? You may not need to move. Instead, consider ways to maximize the space you have. For help, you can hire a professional office space designer, interact with a computer program or create your own simple hand-drawn...

Time is a precious and perishable resource. It is, perhaps, the most perishable resource on the planet. Each second that passes is the destruction of an asset – the asset of time. We can’t save it to use later, we can’t recycle it, and we can’t...