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In the management of a small team, the human factor is crucial to success. This article considers possible motivators and a simple framework for dealing with people. When you are struggling with a deadline or dealing with delicate decisions, the last thing you want to deal with is "people"...

Communication is best achieved through simple planning and control; this article looks at approaches which might help you to do this and specifically at meetings, where conversations need particular care. Most conversations sort of drift along; in business, this is wasteful; as a manager, you...

The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common. This article suggests some common-sense ideas on the subject of great management. The major problem when you start to manage is that you do not actually think about management issues...

Quality is primarily viewed in terms of corporate culture, multi-departmental ad-hoc task forces and the salvation of entire companies. This article, instead, will view these ideas as they might be applied by a Team Leader with a small permanent staff. Quality has become the philosophers' stone...

At a time when the debate on whether the position of the World Bank president should be an exclusive American preserve, reports of outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair contending for the honourable post is making waves. Although the US State department said the post has traditionally been...

LONDON: Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, who won the British reality television show at the heart of a racist bullying row, looks set to meet Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Tony Blair. "It's a huge honour. I am humbled," the actor told the Daily Mirror in an interview published on...

Indian leader Must Learn from Blair British Prime Minister recently announced a list of 500 concrete steps, large and small, to cut red tape in the nation bureaucracy. The measures, which range from simplifying forms to providing fire safety certificates more easily is estimated to save...