The benefits that IT brings to the business have gained increased recognition in the last several years.  From the advent of e-commerce to the efficiencies gained from ERP to the capability to better understand and manage customers through CRM software, IT has been front and center in many critical business initiatives.  The profile of the [...]

A fender-bender – what a perfect way to ruin your day.  That precious little piece of metal that you take such good care of suddenly gets smashed.  Ouch!   It hurts.  You blood pressure goes up.  Your face turns red.  How did this happen?  You look for blame.  You run multiple scenarios through your head… what [...]

Marshall Goldsmith has written several books and is considered an authority in helping people become successful and achieve positive, lasting change in behavior.  He recently wrote a great article for Business Week Online called “The Art of Influencing Up”.  In this article he makes the point that even the best ideas don’t matter if no [...]

A week has 168 hours.  If you sleep eight hours a day, that leaves 112 hours per week of active time in your life.  If you work about 50 hours a week, that is almost half of the active time you have available to you.  This is a very significant portion of your life that [...]

The beginning of the year is the best time to review how we did against our budget in the previous year and to put together a budget for the current year.  Unfortunately, many times what we find is that we blew our budget.  We spent more than we should have, sometimes for reasons out of our [...]