How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Disaster Recovery Planning
Unless you're trying to land your CEO in jail, your disaster recovery plan had better be good. Leo Wrobel explains how the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ultimately means that you really need a plan that protects your data.
Business Resumption Planning in Small and Medium-Sized Offices
Your small business can go from thriving to surviving in the time it takes for an earthquake, an intruder, or some other disaster to wreak havoc on your property. Leo Wrobel explores some steps that even very small businesses can take to prevent or handle a disaster and get back to normal.
Nonprofit Organizations Need A Whistleblower Reporting Mechanism
The IRS adopted a substantially revised Form 990 that calls for significantly expanded corporate governance disclosures.
How to Select a Business Plan Development Partner
Success in any business requires that you communicate the essence of the business in a clear and compelling way to investors, strategic partners, key management personnel and others.
Less-Is-More: A Reality-Based Alignment Process
Most organizations will eventually face hard times. I am suggesting that organizational leaders see this event as an opportunity rather than a trauma.
Increasing Profits By Doing Less
What is the fastest way to increase profits? Stop doing things that don't make a profit! Could increased net profit, increased return on investment and improved cash flow be that easy? The answer is yes.
Sir George Martin: Lessons from the CEO of The Beatles
Treating people equally, focusing on the work, honest communication and doing what you love -- four basic values that legendary record producer Sir George Martin, "the CEO of The Beatles," used with the most successful, creative, zeitgeist-changing, consciousness-raising band in the history of musi
Madoff Matters - Fiduciary Forensics
As events unfold in the Madoff matter, www.fiduciaryexpert.com has issued a summary related to liability and potential recovery. Of note, feeder funds, introducing parties, board members or trustees of non profits and other eleemosynary organizations, advisers thereto and any insurance coverage
POWER, EGO & GREED
This subject is prompted by a concern for the corrosion of character observed in our society and, more particularly, in our professional practices. The post World War II ethic that included loyalty, honesty and commitment as portrayed by William H. Whyte in "The Organization Man" has long disappeared
Managing Frontline Employees for Customer Success: A Toolbox of Employee Satisfaction Ideas
For decades there has been a chasm between frontline employees, typically hourly, and management. Frontline employees recognize a problem and feel powerless to "fix it." They blame management and expect them to "fix it!" They perceive that management does not listen to them. They feel discounted. So they rebel
