Management Systems to Help Your Organisations Survive and Thrive
With the depressed oil market and the general economic concerns affecting industry, commerce and government around the world it is an opportune time to look at how to make your organization more efficient and effective. Many organizations have...
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The UAE Economic Climate and the Future of Dubai
The economic climate in the Middle East has slowed. There is no escaping that reality, the fall in crude and wider political instability has lead to a slow in growth of the UAE private sector. Newly released research by the Emirates NBD Economy...
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Financial Awareness: Leave it to the bean-counters just will not do
It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee – in an economic downturn, financial awareness really is crucial for non-financial managers as well accountants and financial managers.Since mid-2014 when the price of crude oil began to fall...
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The Impact of Falling Oil Prices in the Middle East on Britain
Last week, credit ratings agency Moody’s announced planned reviews to possibly downgrade four Gulf states, Saudi Arabia, The UAE, Qatar and Kuwait. This comes after 18 months of turmoil in the oil and gas industry and oil plummeting to less than...
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Focus on Contracts Management
The declining oil price has been widely documented in recent times and we are still uncertain as to what is really happening in the market and what even the short term future will hold. One thing for certain is that current projects face increasing...
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Innovation and Creativity: Don’t Leave it to Chance
Innovation has long been recognised as one of the most crucial factors that affects an organisation’s success. The only constant in life is that things change and evolve, and if your competitors are evolving when you are not, you risk being left...
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Is Now the Time to Reduce Your Training Budget?
The global economy is experiencing an economic downturn that is having a major impact on all industries and all organisations. This has resulted in many organisation cutting their training budgets and overall learning and development spend. But is...
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Integrated Thinking Reporting: From a Promising Concept to a Powerful Practice
The landscape of Corporate Reporting is changing quickly – no doubt about that. The concepts, elements and principles that characterize the way organizations report their annual performances are currently being questioned, debated, and redesigned...
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9 Things That Make Good Employees Quit
It's pretty incredible how often we hear managers complaining about their best employees leaving. Managers tend to blame their turnover problems on everything under the sun, while ignoring the crux of the matter: people don't leave jobs, they leave...
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Emotional Ergonomics
Ergonomics is about ensuring a good fit between people, the things they do, and the objects they use and the environments in which they work, travel and play.The Science of Ergonomics is a technique complementary to human factors and as such,...
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The Problem with Safety Management Systems
Many organisations, unfortunately, believe the solution to health and safety problems is to create a huge, overpowering management system that covers all eventualities. Once this management system is in place, they look for quick and easy, not...
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Can Money as a Motivator have a Positive Effect on Safety Culture?
The assertion that money as a motivator has a positive effect on a safety culture can vary significantly depending on which level an individual works within an organisation.There are real financial incentives for senior management to actively work...
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The Paradox of Lean Leadership?
Is there a juxtaposition between the application of Lean and the necessity for leadership? Why is Lean Leadership so very challenging? Well, the challenge here is between leaders who are put into a position with a responsibility to show the cause...
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Six Powerful Prospecting Tips to Build Your Business
Why is it that some sales reps consistently earn a six-figure annual income while other reps, putting in the same hours, selling the same products, and trained by the same sales manager struggle each month financially to make ends meet? The answer...
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Are You a Bridge Builder?
Over the years, I have been fortunate to have had many people come into my life and take the time to mentor and guide me along my career path. Mentors, like bridge builders, help people go from where they are to where they want to be. Mentors build...
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