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Manager's Reading Room • • • • • • • •
Articles to help you gain insight into the many facets of management.

 


STRATEGIC PLANNING:

 

  1. Mission! Mission! Who's got the mission?

          The importance of defining your corporate mission and values.

 

  1. What's your planning style?     

          How to identify reactive, inactive, proactive, and strategic planning.

 

  1. The enemy within

          How to spark the flame of teamwork by getting issues out in the open.

 

  1. Know thine enemy -- and thyself

          Situation analysis of the marketplace for corporate strategists.

 

  1. Oh! What a revolting development!

More examples of how situation analysis helps businesses prepare for changes in the marketplace.

 

  1. Attack! ...Uhh! No, circle the wagons!!

          Military strategy as applied to business marketing.

 

  1. To market, to market!

          More marketing lessons from the battlefield.

         

  1. Driving forces? Do you know yours?

          Understanding the force that drives your company toward a product or market.

 

  1. Driving Forces--impact on organizational structure

          Why it's so important to for a company to know its driving force.

 

  1. Five Forces of Business

Revisiting Michael Porter's concept of the forces of competition in his landmark book, Competitive Strategy.

 

  1. When the paradigm shifts!!

          Coping with change.

 

  1. Festival of Trees

Strategic planning applied to fund raising.

 


MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES:

 

  1. Power, power, everywhere!

          Identifying sources of power and using them in a leadership position.

 

  1. The decision-making process

          Reactive planning isn't the only way or the best way.

 

  1. The old family tree

          Elements of organizational restructuring.

 

  1. The art of delegating

          How to avoid the "seagull" style of management.

 

  1. Tick tick tick tick tick

          The structured approach to time management.

 

  1. Tock tock tock tock tock

          The fluid approach to time management.

 

  1. Financial limits to growth

          Understanding the factors that control growth rates.

 

  1. Eeenie, meenie

Making sound decisions based on strategic planning and cost-tracking concepts.

 

  1. Cash management & planning

A simple system for keeping track of your company's ability to pay.

 

  1. Round 1

          Effective conflict resolution in the workplace

 

  1. Coffee, tea or me

          Using planning techniques to improve customer service.

 

  1. Where? Oh, where did my customers go?

          TQM issues relating to customer service.

 

  1. Successful business meetings are not a spectator sport

Ground rules for making the most of precious time spent in meetings.


FAMILY BUSINESS SUCCESSION PLANNING):

 

  1. Succession Plan-Test of your greatness

Peter Drucker’s final test of greatness as a leader

 

  1. It will never happen to me!

          One family's wake-up call about succession planning.

 

  1. Family planning??

          The special requirements of strategic planning for family businesses.

 

  1. Cliff planning? Is this your succession plan?

Will your company's future be decided after you're gone -- or will you have a say?   

 

  1. Succession Planning Process

          A proven process for guiding future succession for a family business.

 

  1. Company vision, family vision

How to resolve conflicts between family and management on business direction.

 

  1. Succession Planning Team

Organizing a team of professional advisors for succession planning.

 

  1. Conflict Resolution in Family Business

Communication techniques that preserve a sense of fairness in succession planning.

 

 

Management Information Reporting:


  1. Outsourcing Bookkeeping
  2. Using Financial Information
  3. Using Your Financials for Decision Making
  4. Cost Analysis and Control
  5. Business Process and Accountability
  1. Accrual versus Cash Based Accounting
  2. Asset Control and Inventory Management
  3. Cash Management
  4. Vancouver Business Journal Article On Bookkeeping Service

10. Profit Center Analysis


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