Time is the single resource in our lives that it’s impossible to make more of. Which is unfortunate, because we waste tons of the stuff — especially at work. Want to make better use of your time, get more stuff done, and possibly save some extra time for yourself and your family? I won’t promise [...]
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I don’t work in your office, but I bet that I can describe how a typical project gets accomplished. Not only are the SMEs — the subject matter experts — assigned to the operation, but so are partners from across the company. These are people that have little direct impact on the outcome, but are [...]
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China’s paying accounts rose 30.9% quarter on quarter to 77,000 in the management-type software-as-a-service (SaaS) market in the third quarter of 2009, according to a data report released lately by Analysys International. Of the total paying accounts, 21,800 or 28.2% were from www.Youshang.com, an e-commerce platform under Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 0268). Youshang.com ranked [...]
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Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Traditionally we take stock of the things that we’re thankful for on this day each year. And I realized that one of those things is Steve Jobs. I’m thankful that he returned to Apple in 1997 and did the things he has done since. It wasn’t at all a [...]
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Recently, typing the words private equity financing into a commercial search engine yielded 1,990,000 entries, more than a few announcing a funding victory. “There is a significant amount of private equity capital chasing investment opportunities,” says Atlanta-based Fentress Seagroves, managing director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Transaction Services group. “And the pace is accelerating.” Though private equity funds [...]
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Most managers don’t know how to delegate. That’s not really surprising, because no one ever delegated anything to them. How else are they going to learn?Many times, managers dump their work onto someone else, but there is a big difference between delegating and dumping. When you delegate something to a subordinate it should serve two [...]
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