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Check Out the “Dark Side” or Personality when Hiring or Promoting
"Commercial enterprises are rife with myriad narcissistic personalities" according to Joan Lachkar, author of an interesting little book called "How to Talk to a Narcissist". Here are some tips for recognizing the "dark side" of personality when hiring or promoting employees.
Be on the Lookout For Desk Rage
According to a recent REUTERS article, workplace violence is on the rise. And to find the reason why, one need look no further than the economy. Job cutbacks, home foreclosures and high food and fuel prices are putting a strain on families all over America. Unfortunately, that strain is not staying in the home. It's traveling to work with many employees.

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"The Banality of Heroism"
My Stanford psychology professor, Dr. Philip Zimbardo, and Zeno Franco, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology wrote a terrific article called “The Banality of Heroism.”
III.c. Linking into B2B Supply Chains: E-COMMERCE AND SMALL ENTREPRENEURS
For countries undergoing rapid structural transformation, the expansion of industrial employment still holds vast potential for raising living standards of the poor. To what extent can the Internet and e-commerce serve to raise productivity and competitiveness in the industrial sectors of developing countries?
Industrial Engineering, a continuing productivity influence
Industrial Engineering contributes to productivity in many ways because it can improve performance throughout the P&L, the balance sheet, and customer service. Industrial Engineering tools can quantify and lower costs in administration, government, health care, labs, installation, maintenance, energy, the service industry, quality, materials, facility management as well as the production floor. Also see my four Amazon books, in print and Kindle editions. These topics are key to the practice of industrial engineering. Plant Design, Facility Layout, Floor Planning. Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive Facility Relocation, Merger and Design Time and Motion Study What, Why, and How-To

MARKETING YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR BUSINESSES DEVELOPMENT.
Marketing concept has evolved over the years. It has gone through some sort of evolution to where we are today. There have been marked stages and these stages are the following: Industrial revolution: at this stage specialization took place, with the industrial revolution, wages were introduced. At this stage the farmers could produce and sell to the industrial workers. The marketing and the business concept was simple at this stage but later become more complicated eventually. In marketing this stage is called the production stage, it took a while and Henry Ford perfected it. He came up with the car assembly and mass market was born. At this stage there was limited choice for the customer.

Relationships: The Key to Organizational Success
Every company has an organizational structure which determines the duties and obligations of each employee. Each employee, from executive to manager to the employee, plays an important role in the productivity and success of the organization. In many cases channeled down organizational decisions can have a negative influence on the relationship between the supervisor and the employee which results in losses in organizational productivity and profits. Organizational relationships between supervisors and employees are the key to the success of any organization.
Be a Change Management Rocket Scientist
When you get down to it, change management is a pretty “soft science” – a combination of ideas from organizational psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology (and some other things ending in “ology” that I can’t remember). This, however, does not impress our friends in the “hard sciences” (engineers, chemists, physicists and other things not ending in “ology”). These guys become suspicious if you talk to them about things you can’t put in a test tube. “Show me the empirical evidence” they say when you talk to them about the soft-side of organizational change. “I want to see the data” or “give me the formula”. This is when a change manager turns into a rocket scientist and pulls out their secret scientific weapon the CHANGE EQUATION!

Social Media - One Man's Definition!
The definition of social media is that these are the foremost internet based tools to disseminate and exchange information among people. It is the term used to describe social interaction activities using computer, web and telecommunications technology. It differentiates itself from industrial media by virtue of the fact that the cost of the tools necessary to participate is fairly low and allows all who want to access information or disseminate it, to do so relatively cheaply. On the other hand, examples of industrial media are printing presses, radio and television. Industrial media can be considered funnels that facilitate access to, and movement of huge quantities of information, whereas a website is the information container. Narrowly focused websites can be seen as exits from the vast space of industrial media channels. Further....
Is There A Shift In Industrial Marketing?
Has industrial marketing shifted from traditional ways of marketing to online marketing methods? I contend that industrial buyers use the same buying process, but made easier over the years through online search and other online media applications.
A Great Way To Tug On Your Buyer’s Heart Strings
Funny enough, most buyers are much less concerned about everything else once they enter a sparkling entrance. This is part of the psychology of the deal that I teach my joint venture partners. Believe it or not, psychology plays an important role in real estate investment as well.
The Role of Organizational Design in 21st Century Organizations.
The world is pressed on all sides by a diminishing full-time workforce, differing cultural, generational, political, and religious views and the organization of the 21st century must be more agile than its 19th and 20th century ancestors. The role of organizational design is imperative to how the organization deals with challenges it now faces. Today’s organizational design will require an ability to share ideas, knowledge, resources and skills across organizational, generational and cultural boundaries within and outside of the organizational system for the purpose of achieving desired goals. This article addresses the role of organizational design in 21st century organization.
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