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Management

How to Manage Independent Contractors
Federal Express is just the latest company to face big IRS fines for mishandling contractors. Here's how to manage ICs the right way.
Tags: Employee, Contractor, Internal Revenue Service, Worker, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Lynn Haber, Driver, independent contractor, hiring, IRS, taxes, worker classification, Federal Express, Crash Course
The Case for Making Bigger Cars
I just watched the webcast of Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize lecture (slides here). In it, he laid out his theories of economic geography, which ...
Tags: Car, Detroit, The Auto Industry, Felix Salmon
Is the Office Bully Back?
Volatile economic times bring out workplace volatility, too. If stress has your employees behaving badly, here's how to take back the office.
Tags: Workplace Bullying, Harassment, Team Management, BNET Feature Package
How to Handle a Workplace Bully
Half of U.S. employees have been bullied at work. Here's how to stop bad behavior before it costs your company big.
Tags: Workplace, Employee, Behavior, Workplace Violence, Person, Recruitment & Selection, Harassment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Gender And Diversity, Jennifer Alsever, Workplace Bullying, Crash Course
Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
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Strategy

Smooth Moves
How five industry leaders set themselves up to not just survive the recession but move past rivals in a tough market.
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Management, Strategy, Apple, Hudson City Bancorp, Clorox, CVS Caremark, Home Depot
Take Advantage of Training Programs
While competitors cut training, invest wisely in programs that will help you hang onto A players and prepare your company to rebound after the ...
Tags: Leadership, Training, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Recession Strategy, Employee Training, BNET Feature, Kim Girard
Apple: The Perfectly Timed Negative Ad Campaign
Apple beefed up ad expenditures to launch an anti-PC ad campaign that blindsided the mighty Microsoft.
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Advertisement, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft, Negative Advertising, Brand, Lindsay Blakely
Hudson City Bancorp: One Bank That Didn’t Drink the Kool-Aid
Hudson stuck to its conservative lending practices and skipped subprime mortgages, trading short-term windfalls for slow but steady growth.
Tags: Bank, Deposit, Beverage, Subprime Mortgage, Mortgages, IPO, Financial Services, Finance, Capital Structures, Hudson City Bancorp, Subprime Mortgages, Overcapitalization, Risk Management, Lindsay Blakely
Home Depot: Back to Basics
Home Depot got rid of underperforming assets and redirected resources into what had long been neglected its customers.
Tags: Home Depot Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, The Home Depot, Lowe’s, Customers, Employee Satisfaction, Retail, Lindsay Blakely

Work Life

The Micromanager/Implementer
A micromanager tends to overorganize and tries to maintain more control than is necessary. By being too controlled, ironically, micromanagers can end up out ...
Tags: Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
The Captain and Commander
To eliminate the dilemma of work/life balance, you must first find the optimal relationship between control and perspective.
Tags: Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
Pay Attention to What Has Your Attention
To most effectively use the fundamentals of self-management, it helps to start with a reference point. You won't have to look far, because what ...
Tags: Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership, Management
David Allen: What Kind of Self-Manager Are You?
Do you manage other people better than yourself? In exclusive excerpts from his new book, Making It All Work, David Allen explains how to ...
Tags: BNET Feature Package, Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done, Time Management, Leadership
The Victim/Responder
Being out of control isn't inherently a bad thing, and learning how to deal with "leaks in the system" is key to staying afloat.
Tags: Book Excerpt, David Allen, Making It All Work, GTD, Getting Things Done

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