HR is amid a paradigm shift. Smart companies know that in our modern service and information economies, people are our most valuable assets. As such, HR has taken on an increasingly front-line, strategic function, and is as important as finance, sales, marketing, or...

Whatever an organization does, human beings are essential to its success. "Humans are an organization's greatest asset. Any organization and endeavor that operates in the realm of commerce requires human beings. Accordingly, understanding how to manage this essential...

If an organization does not have the right people leading important projects, the risk of projects failing is real. According to the Standish Group, less than a third of all projects were successfully completed on time and on budget. Breaking this down, we learn that...

In slower moving and less complex business environments the old hierarchical model that depended mostly on only a few people at the top for leadership simply doesn't work anymore. In today's more volatile, uncertain and ambiguous business battlefield, decentralized...

According to C.G Jung who said that “There is no cure and no improving of the world that does not begin with the individual himself.” Having said that, So-called “soft skills” make a real difference to a company’s bottom line. A 2010 study of leaders in a variety of...

To be successful and remain in business, both profitability and growth are important and necessary for a company to survive and remain attractive to investors and analysts. Profitability is, of course, critical to a company's long-term survivability. Profit is "money...

According to Peter F Drucker he said that "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. It is the customer who determines what a business is. What the business thinks it produces is not of first importance - especially not to the...

According to the American Marketing Association’s definition: Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. By no...