It can be tempting for managers to feel that empty positions must be filled as quickly as possible to maintain normal operations. But as the Eisenhower Principle reminds us, we must not allow what’s urgent to overtake what’s important.
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Perspectives
Here’s how to tackle high inflation
You’re going to need a team including your best people in accounting, sales, purchasing, process improvement and human resources. They will have to share information like never before.
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How Does an Investor Actually Make an Environmental Impact?
Historically, the fiduciary duty of investors was to maximize profits and returns on investments. Until the mid-2000s, any benefit to other stakeholders like employees, the public or special interest groups was secondary.
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The Second Act: Employee Retirement Benefits
Attracting and retaining good employees in a competitive labor market almost requires offering benefits like company sponsored retirement plans and personalized education on how to use them.
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Luring the best and brightest to your company
In today’s landscape of low unemployment and workers demanding more and more for their talents, recruiters are having to come up with ways to outbid their competitors for attracting the best and brightest.
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Study reveals top 5 clinical conditions driving employer costs
In an extensive analysis of patient claims data, health plan member engagement has emerged as employers’ single best-practice solution for controlling costs and improving outcomes for their employees.
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Two stalled auto brands are being jolted back to life by their owners
Joost de Vries, is the CEO of DeLorean Motor Company, yes, that DeLorean Motor Company, the one whose original model was most famous for its role in the movie Back to the Future, and for going bankrupt after producing just 8,000 cars. De Vries is leading the charge to re-enter the automobile marketplace with an all-electric version of the long dormant brand dubbed the Alpha5.
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Customer service can be a marketing weapon
The customer service personnel at Moen must have read Ken Blanchard’s “Raving Fans.” Their response to a recent call has made me a raving fan. I want to explain why, because the elements of it are so simple.
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The wide and wild world of warehousing
Very few people, if anyone could have imagined today’s world of warehousing prior to the launch of e-commerce. Today’s warehousing industry is wide and wild.
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Secure your business’ future: Planning made easy
Whether it was the influx of radio commercials or the emails from your accountant flooding your inbox, you’ve probably realized by now that tax season just past.
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Will the Armstrong Flooring brand survive Chapter 11? That may be all that does.
Like an aging heavyweight boxer on his way to a final defeat, Armstrong Flooring may have taken too many body blows to ever hope to be victorious, unless they can land one last lucky punch.
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Why we don’t fear the ‘bear’
If we have learned anything from over 100 years of combined experience serving individuals, families and business owners, it is that none of us should be in the habit of attempting to predict what the stock and bond markets do next.
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Why hiring managers need to understand workers’ growth mindset
In an uncertain world, everyone is looking for a sure thing, hiring managers perhaps most of all, as the struggle to retain and attract talented employees continues. The Washington Post reports that 4.3 million people quit their jobs in January, indicating that The Great Resignation is far from over.
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To Sell? Retire? Tips for small business owners
As a partner and CEO with Domani Wealth in Lancaster, Thomas K. Williams often advises business owners as they prepare to sell their companies and retire.
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Balancing the small business landscape
Small businesses, from mom and pops to manufacturers and exporters, account for two-thirds of net new jobs in the U.S., generating more than 40% of our nation’s economic output.
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