Dr. Earl R. Smith II

By Philip Haddon | 07:00:00 | 12 January 2009

Franklin Templeton’s veteran emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius thinks the scandal involving Satyam in India and Madoff in the US shows that regulators and corporate governance have failed everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

THE ISSUE: Surviving the recession

OUR OPINION: It’s not too late for New Year’s resolutions to promote better management Read the rest of this entry »

Tony Kaye | November 28, 2008
Article from: The Australian

COMPANIES receiving venture capital backing are generally better at corporate governance when they list on the stock exchange than those that have not gone down the venture capital path, according to a study by the Australian School of Business. Read the rest of this entry »

In a conversation at a networking meeting last week someone brought this subject up, again. Phone etiquette. Do you realize how important it is? Read the rest of this entry »

For centuries, people have debated whether leaders are born or made. Several decades ago, researchers started trying to answer the question. The debate goes on, even though we know the answer.

It turns out to be a little of both. Leaders are sort of born and they’re always made. Knowing the details will help you develop effective leaders for your company. Read the rest of this entry »

By Ruth Marcus
From the Washington Post, Tuesday, August 30, 2005; Page A17

Did PowerPoint make the space shuttle crash? Could it doom another mission? Preposterous as this may sound, the ubiquitous Microsoft “presentation software” has twice been singled out for special criticism by task forces reviewing the space shuttle disaster. Read the rest of this entry »

By Dick Stieglitz, PhD
Business Consultant, Author & Motivational Speaker

The speaker opened his presentation to a group of small business CEOs with a challenge: ”If a bomb exploded right here, right now, who would replace you as the executive leader of your company, and how well would they perform?” Most CEOs acknowledged that they had no clear successor, and the few who had designated one expressed substantial doubts about his or her ability to grow the company. Even though my company was seventeen years old at the time, I was in the majority who didn’t know who their successor would be. My company probably would have disintegrated if I had been hit by the proverbial truck. Read the rest of this entry »

We hear a lot of rhetoric about executive compensation, the majority of it is critical of CEO pay. Yet CEO pay continues to climb and little seems to be done about it. Is exec pay out of control and if so, why has it not been curtailed? Read the rest of this entry »

By Allen Bernard

Most often when a new implementation fails it has very little to do with the underlying technology. Generally, the root cause of a failure, however it’s defined, is poor planning or poor execution of that which is planned.

Simply put, nine system failures out of ten, it’s the human factor. And even that 10th example probably has a very strong human component hiding somewhere Read the rest of this entry »

By BARRY SHLACHTER
barry@star-telegram.com

Clearly, bad economic headlines can be welcome news for some businesses. Take the turnaround industry.

Just a few years ago, these firms were bemoaning the lack of Chapter 11 bankruptcies. Some frantically diversified into other consulting areas. Read the rest of this entry »