Article: Work it: take these disciplines, add lots of hard work, and master the art of running your company.(Books)(Book Review)

Article: Talent scouting: staff smarts: employees' hidden ...
Entrepreneur;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...DO YOU KNOW HOW TALENTED YOUR employees really are? Every employee has hidden talents that could take your company from good to great. "People come with more talent than the job they're hired for," says Robert Kelley, a professor of management at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Tapping

Article: Risky business: staff smarts: should a prospective ...
Entrepreneur;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...SCREENING JOB APPLICANTS USED TO BE about checking resumes and references. Now, nervous employers are going a step further, running credit checks to weed out potential problem employees. Under current law, employers can reject applicants on the basis of their personal credit. But to what extent

Article: New management; Staff smarts: It's your way or the ...
Entrepreneur;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...THEY SAY THE THIRD TIME'S A CHARM. That's the way it worked for Nicole Geller, founder and CEO of GCS Inc., a 5-year-old temporary agency and government contracts consulting practice in McLean, Virginia. It took Geller three tries to find the right sales manager. The first manager was too

Article: Who's paying? Staff smarts: Should you choose to ...
Entrepreneur;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...BUSINESS IS GOOD FOR JIM AMARAL. His bakery, Borealis Breads, has grown beyond its original Wells, Maine, store to include three other locations, annual sales are averaging $3 million, and the company's baked goods have been featured on CNN. But more is rising at Borealis than bread. Three years

Article: Worst-case scenario; Staff smarts: How would your ...
Entrepreneur;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...WHEN FLIGHT 77 SLAMMED INTO the Pentagon on September 11, the 37 employees at Children's World Learning Center, the Pentagon's day-care facility, knew exactly what to do. They calmly led the kids out of their building, situated near the Pentagon, to a safe location. It turns out that these day-care

Article: Swimming in IT; Staff smarts: Surveys show your ...
Entrepreneur;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...TECHIES WORK HARD--MAYBE TOO hard. When technology site Tech Republic.com surveyed nearly 4,000 tech workers in February, 67 percent claimed they worked too much, and 81 percent felt they lacked work-life balance. Their reasons are even more startling. About 40 percent cited understaffing, and 18

Article: Exercise your options. (stock options)(Staff ...
Entrepreneur;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Offering stock options could help you nab the most desirable employees. When is a whole pie worth less than a piece? If your business is that pie and you're holding all of it, you may be hindering the company's growth, making it worth less than it could be. That's because a huge trend today - in