Articles Involving CMI

• Workplace Rumors Fuel Employee Uncertainty/Doomsday Forecasts Shatter Morale, Trust
  Published by Global Knowledge Network, Inc. - February 2003
• How number-crunching could predict business success, a solution to low-worth stock options, and the value of "Patriot Bonds"
  Published by Entrepreneur magazine - April 2002
  
• Change Management
  As published in "The Review" (February, 2001), a worldwide magazine based in London, England.
• Ross Furniture Enters Third Generation Of Family Business
• Consultant's Suggestions Rearrange, Revitalize Furniture Firm
  
• Combating the 'Call-ins'
  Enforcing a strict policy on absenteeism can make your employees hang up their hooky habits.
  
• Dealing Positively with Problem Employees
  Why you MUST stay close to you employees and keep a two-way communications path open. The tremendous benefit to you by doing this.
  

Published Articles

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• It Doesn't Work (Accountability without Authority)
  Why you can't hold people accountable for anything without giving them clear and defined authority.
  
  
• Revenue Enhancement - A New Thought
  Why cost cutting (rather than enhancing revenue) is moving you closer to major problems by avoiding the real issues.
  
  
• Know your In-House Financial Manager
  Why it is to your benefit to maximize your Financial Manager's effectiveness as the purveyor and interpreter of company information.
  
  
• (Non) Decision Making for Owners -103
  How only the strong and bold survive, and the procrastinators fail in business. How failing to make timely decisions can kill your company.
  
  
• Hiring for a New or Created Position
  The absolute uniqueness of hiring for a new position where there is no incumbent. Why you have to pay special attention to these hires, or lose.
   
  
• What an Employee really Costs/Generates
  The mistake of looking at what an employee costs you rather than focusing on how much revenue they can generate for you if properly used.
   
  
• PROMOTING WITHOUT PLANNING
  Why "random promoting", picking the best available person from in-house, or promoting because you feel an obligation to a particular person can cost you dearly and show signs of management weakness.
   
  
• Consultants and Owners CONTROVERSY and REALITY
  Unless you get the right on-site consultant, you are wasting your time and money. The secrets of relationships with consultants. The selection process.
   
  
• PRIORITIZING
  How winners are able to prioritize and move forward, while others stagnate. The ABC decision process, and the critical importance of timing.
   
  
• OWNERS/MANAGERS DELEGATION PROGRAM
  Why you will never improve your quality of life and maximize company effectiveness unless you are willing and trained to delegate. Get the monkey off of your back.
   
  
• LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT
  How leadership and motivational skills can make or break you. Why YOU need to set the example for them. What the followers really need from you.
   
  
• STARTING OVER
  Why mentally treating your business as a startup every 6 months, and evaluating every aspect of your business from that zero-base mentality will keep you on the path to success.
   
  
• SMALL BUSINESS INFORMATION PROCESSING
  THE CRITICAL MISSING LINK
  Why computers are useless information generators without a human interpreter. All that money spent on computers to stay in vogue, and then only using 25% of the potential you purchased. One of all businesses most common mistake.
   
  
• DO YOU NEED A COMPLACENCY CHECK-UP?
  How complacency, settling for mediocrity, and stagnation can severely damage your company. How to rejuvenate.