The following guest post was written by Jennifer Smith who is a journalism student at Saint Louis University. Upon graduation, she hopes to travel the world while producing compelling content for the masses. When she isn’t writing, you can find Jenna with her nose in a book, or her headphones in to block out the rest [...]
Small Business Management
We’re coming to the close of 2011 and people are starting to ask what the IRS mileage rate will be for 2012. The reimbursement rate had an unusual midyear change in 2011 to adjust for rising gas prices and increased by 4.5 cents to the current 55.5 cents. The IRS recently announced that the Standard [...]
We’re a few weeks into the 4th quarter and I thought it might be helpful to talk about those things your organization can be doing now to plan and prepare for 2012. I am a firm believer in the old saying “If you fail to plan – you plan to fail”. There are no truer words [...]
According to a McKinsey Quarterly report, the glass ceiling is still very real and women are not advancing at a rate they should be despite sporadic corporate efforts over the last couple of decades. An interesting documentary called Miss Representation will be aired later this month in the hopes of heigtening the awareness of the [...]
Some interesting statistics were presented in a recent McKinsey Quarterly which reports that despite the efforts of the last couple of decades to advance the careers of women and remove the glass ceiling, women who serve on boards or senior executive teams remains at 15 percent in many countries and only 3 percent of Fortune 500 [...]
Fulfilling the mission of an organization requires planning and management skills. Every business should have a mapped out strategy and a strategic plan is only as effective as the supporting goals that are written to implement it. And goals are only as effective as the people who have responsibility for completing them. I am a [...]
I was recently asked why a business needs a vision statement. My response was that a vision, mission and values statement is a tool to help the organization accomplish what it has set out to do and helps provide a framework for success. A Vision statement describes the ideal future state of the organization. It [...]
