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Business Stress and its Causes
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What is Business Stress?Business stress is felt during times of conflict, pressure, loss, illness or anxiety. It describes the frantic pace of business life. Everyone reacts differently to stress. Some people can cope and take it in their stride; others find the pressure too much and buckle under. Much of the stress, anxiety, and the sense of overload that people carry is becau .....
Author: Peter Viliamu
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Business Success - The 42 Greatest Business Tips
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What does it take to grow a business and run it successfully? The main ingredient is attention to the basics, operating with integrity and following the way other successful people have run their operations.
Here are StartRunGrow.com's 42 greatest business tips for you to follow:
Advisers - Make sure you talk to other successful people who have already done it. There .....
Author: Peter Viliamu
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Collect that Debt - Your Business Depends on it
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The efficiency of debt collection is the difference between a business that will succeed and a business that closes up.
If you do not have control of your debt collection then you will eventually fail. All businesses that grant credit will be faced with the problem of bad debt at some stage. The best way to deal with bad debt is to have a good debt control system in place.
Th .....
Author: Peter Viliamu
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Credit and Its Cost
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What is Credit?Credit is money granted by a lender (or creditor) to a debtor (or borrower) whereby the lender defers receiving payment of the debt for a period. In exchange for the credit allowed, the lender will get back the money lent plus interest. The borrower has use of the money immediately, rather than waiting until the money required is saved up.
It enables the borrowe .....
Author: Peter Viliamu
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Family Business and Conflicts
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What is a Family Business?A family business is basically any business in which the majority of the ownership or control lies within a family. Involvement of members of family in a business can bring with it its own complexities because the line between the business system is sometimes separated by a thin line from the family system. Sometimes these 2 positions overlap causing a .....
Author: Peter Viliamu
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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How to Handle Business Disputes
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Suggestions for Handling DisputesAny conflicts involving customers, employees or suppliers, or a partner, is very disruptive. Disputes and conflicts cannot be allowed to escalate because of the damage they can cause. There are ways of dealing with disputes, to arrive at an agreement or resolution where all parties concerned are satisfied.
Here are a few suggestions for handlin .....
Author: Peter Viliamu
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Productivity: So Many Small Things
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We rarely see stories or articles about productivity in the newspaper or on TV. When we do, it’s usually just another story on the economy that defies understanding.
Which is too bad. Our prosperous standard of living arrived, in large part, because of the ability of companies and organizations everywhere, and for the past several hundred years, to increase productivity.
Prod .....
Author: Robert Abbott
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Better Internal Proposals
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A colleague of mine has a problem. We belong to the same association and he's been trying for quite some time, without success, to get support for one of his proposals.
His lack of results came to mind when a reader asked for ideas about making internal proposals more effective. As she noted in her message, it's necessary to make a business case for proposals, includin .....
Author: Robert Abbott
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Change, or Reinforce?
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Do you know about the distinction - and it's a useful one - between communication that tries to reinforce and communication that tries to get change?
If you follow politics you'll already be familiar with this idea: Incumbents send messages that reinforce existing voter behavior, while challengers call for changes.
Any thoughtful marketing communication (and political .....
Author: Robert Abbott
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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Communicating CEOs
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I see a PR firm has done a survey on the amount of time Canadian CEOs spend on communication, and found they spend almost half of their time on communication.
I think we're supposed to be impressed that CEOs spend that much time on communication. But, quite frankly, what else does a CEO do? And, if you consider both direct and indirect communication, wouldn't that be m .....
Author: Robert Abbott
Date Posted: Aug 19, 2005
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