Office Space and Office Politics
“What are you doing in Frank’s office,” I ask Bob who is staring at the overhead light fixture. Startled, he quickly looks down. I continue to tease him, “What is this? A meditation room?...
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The Cover Letter For Your Resume
“A resume is a hand grenade, with the pin removed,” quipped my favorite outplacement consultant. “The (anti) personal departments use resumes to filter out candidates.” The cover letter can act as a vehicle to...
The MillionDollar HomePage, Ten Years Later
In 2005 Your Business Professor bought advertising space on a website. I paid Alex Tew a hundred bucks. I got no clients. But all was not lost. Alex Tew got a million dollars. Seems...
The Word In Sales and Marketing
by Jack Yoest Consistency. The wrong combination of what the small business offers and then delivers can leave a bad taste. The salt-water taffy candy tasted terrible. It was safe to eat and would...
How To Teach Business Ethics
By Jack Yoest Your Business Professor was teaching our 5-year-old boy some basketball moves in our backyard court. Grab a jersey here. Push there. Lean. Scream. Charmaine looked out the window from her home...
Planned Parenthood’s Baby Organ Profit Center?
How much profit is in a baby liver? About $11,000. A few years ago Your Business Professor was needling his tax accountant. I asked him, “What will you do when everyone uses software to...
George C. Marshall, Organizer of Victory, Man of Integrity
The poem “George C. Marshall (1880-1959)” by Thomas Hawkins Johnson, deserves a wide audience. Especially in these troubled times. In the photograph there are two rows of men, Twelve or thirteen in all. Their...
We do Business in my Business Classroom
Dear #AlertStudent we will behave as if the class was all-staff business meeting. This means that, There is an employment contract (syllabus). Attendance is mandatory (a condition of employment). There is an agenda (lesson...
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities (KSA’s) Defined
Knowledge refers to an organized body of information usually of a factual or procedural nature, which if applied, makes adequate performance on the job possible. A body of information applied directly to the performance...
Guest Lecturer on Peter Drucker by Bruce Rosenstein at The Catholic University of America
Dear MGT 345-01 and-02, On Friday 24 April at the 2:10 in McMahon 318, Bruce Rosenstein will be lecturing on Peter Drucker. Professor Rosenstein teaches here at the CUA in Library and Info Science...
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