Year: 2011

  • Realistic Goals Should Be Realistic

    Realistic goals should be realistically possible to achieve. Realistic goals take into account your potential market, the current conditions, and historical trends. Knowing what your team is capable of achieving, the goal should cause the team to focus, stretch, and put in an extra effort to accomplish it.

  • A Happy Customer is a Free Sales & Marketing Rep

    Business are spending more and more each year to bring in new clients. In management and business courses, one of the classic ideas in business is that it costs much more to bring in a new customer than to keep a customer.

  • The Importance of Making Mistakes

    An expert, is an individual who has made all of the mistakes that can be made and has learned from them. It’s a fact of life that most people fail when attempting to do something for the first time. In business, you will often find your team members not doing things correctly at first. The…

  • You Are the Gatekeeper

    Focus on a few key objectives … I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I’m really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.…

  • What to do when an employee leaves the company?

    Recently the following question was posed: “As a manager, is it important to address your team when someone leaves the company?” The answers varied based on the individual offering the answer and it generally told a lot about that individual, their corporate background, age, and professional experience. The landscape of how businesses and managers operate…

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    TheMana.gr is on Facebook! Be sure to check out our Facebook page and don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook. You can quickly stay up to date with all of the articles from TheMana.gr straight from Facebook and also get insider information behind what is going on with TheMana.gr and upcoming topics and guest bloggers.…