Management

Managing the Ukraine Crisis

Managing the Ukraine Crisis

April 1, 2022

Sara Lefcourt explains how the crisis in Ukraine may affect your business and offers tips for managing the situation.

Training a Reliability Workforce to Run Like Well Oiled Machinery

Training a Reliability Workforce to Run Like Well Oiled Machinery

March 2, 2022

High-quality employee training can be an effective tool in retaining employees and building a skilled workforce. Tim Sku ...

Offering Opinions and Making Decisions

Offering Opinions and Making Decisions

March 1, 2022

Decisions made in the business world must be made based on more than just opinion, says Jack Goodhue.

Consider These 2022 Trends

Consider These 2022 Trends

February 1, 2022

Some pandemic-induced trends might accelerate in 2022. How will they affect your planning and management strategies?

Conglomerates: Yes, No, Yes, No

Conglomerates: Yes, No, Yes, No

January 1, 2022

Corporate conglomerates seem to go in and out of style. Jack Goodhue explains how they are faring in today’s market.

Your Business

Your Business

November 1, 2021

Knowing When to Hold and When to Fold   In life, as in poker, the importance of recognizing when to hold ’em a ...

Branching Out

Branching Out

October 4, 2021

A European Company Goes Elsewhere to Grow Any European lubricant company harboring ambitions to grow is immediately c ...

Best Practices

Best Practices

October 4, 2021

Manage Your Margins The financial community is trying to assess whether the inflation we are seeing is “transitory ...

Best Practices

Best Practices

April 1, 2021

Rethink Your Risk Analysis Over the past month or so, there have been several stunning examples of systemic failures ...

Your Business

Your Business

March 4, 2021

Don’t Be A Lemming  A human lemming has been defined as “a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, es ...

Best Practices

Best Practices

December 1, 2020

Own Your Failure I recently watched on CNBC an extremely interesting interview with former EBay chief Meg Whitman and ...

Your Business

Your Business

November 2, 2020

Pleasing Cranky Customers  By now, we clearly understand that many of our customers, both retail and business-to ...

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Brenntag Adopts New Structure

September 29, 2020

Chemicals distributor Brenntag said last week that it will change its operating model by forming two units – one to su ...

Best Practices

Best Practices

August 5, 2020

Sara Lefcourt says businesses can reap some value from every crisis—even one as painful as this pandemic.

Your Business

Your Business

July 2, 2020

Dealing with covid-19 has been something of an adventure, says Jack Goodhue. What lessons have we taken away from the ex ...

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Best Practices

June 2, 2020

Sara Lefcourt explores which trends may be accelerated—or made permanent—by covid-19.

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Your Business

April 29, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has proven to be one of the most life-changing events in American history. But Jack Goodhue is ...

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Best Practices

April 29, 2020

Sara Lefcourt offers up tips for effective communication during a crisis.