Managers decide on strategy, schedule projects, allocate material resources, and hire, train, and fire staff. They become ultimately responsible for the success of the enterprises they control, since ...

In the prior post, Transferable Business Value And What Drives It, I described value drivers—business characteristics that buyers demand if they are to purchase your business. Value drivers are ...

Some mid-level managers in the nonprofit world might want to break into an executive role one day, either at their current organization or a different one. That’s a path I’m familiar with. I joined my ...

When authors Robert A. Rudzki and Robert J. Trent speak to supply management professionals, they often ask the audience to please raise their hands if they believe that most senior executives around ...

Picture the most successful companies in the world; they have one thing in common — an effective organizational structure. But what exactly does that entail and how can it make or break a business? If ...

You've heard most of the clichés about people who fail to plan and darn if you're going to be one of them. Besides, you're actually looking forward to the day, sometime soon, when you can begin adding ...