“Taking Action: Working Through Procrastination and Achieving Your Goals”
How do you accomplish your goals when procrastination takes over and you can't find the motivation to make progress on the tasks at hand?
Harshad Shah, president of Eagle Technology Inc.
What was the smartest thing your company did in the past year?
"To gain an increase in market share and expand internationally, we released a web-based, cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of its asset management software. This web-based version is much easier to deploy and is significantly lower in upfront costs, increasing a facility's return on investment. Additional internationalized features in the web-based version allow us to expand our international presence."
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Business confidence cools for 4th quarter
Business confidence in future growth prospects turned downward in 2012's fourth quarter, according to the latest Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce.
Coach your employees
Over the past few weeks, I've worked with several senior leaders who are trying to overcome their natural tendency to over direct their employees. They realized they were trying to help their direct reports by solving their problems for them. Once they realized how undermining their actions were, they started working on being better coaches, who held their managers accountable, rather than doing their jobs for them.
Do the right thing
There is a dearth of ethics in the current business culture. The National Business Ethics Survey results have shown that employees' perceptions of senior executives and supervisors declined last year.
