Two unorthodox business approaches that work

Having worked in a number of professional settings, I have seen two non-orthodox approaches do good things for the companies that practice them. One is cultivating loyalty to the company through direct personal engagement between the boss and the workers. The other is...

Marketing Basics ~ The 4 P’s Of Marketing

By: Josh Druck 1) Product – Characteristics of your product or service. Does it meet the needs of your customers and provide them with satisfactory results. The Product Strategy includes how your products will be positioned against the competition in the...

Innovation and the Capitalistic Dream

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"On 18 June business people across the UK took part in Living Innovation 2002. The extravaganza included a national broadcast linkup from the Eden Project in Cornwall and satellite-televised interviews with...

Corporate Narcissism: Narcissism in the Boardroom

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The perpetrators of the recent spate of financial frauds in the USA acted with callous disregard for both their employees and shareholders - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists have often...

IT dictator . . .or maybe “IT benevolent despot”?

You are not only the IT manager, you’re also the leader, primary advocate, mood setter, chief technologist . . . & bottle washer . . . and, of course, the chief decision maker. You are absolutely on the hook for decisions made in your IT department, and good...