Is a toxic manager hurting your business?

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. Here’s an example....

Are you onboarding new hires for success?

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 to the social and...

How to maximize your office space

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 floor plan....

Are you wasting your time? Here’s help

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 reclaim it once it has...

Collusion: When it’s a team effort to defraud

Collusion – a secret agreement between two or more individuals for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose – is one of the most difficult types of fraud to expose. Auditors routinely excuse themselves from the responsibility of detecting fraud, collusion in particular. It...