The biggest fly to be swatted so far by the struggling real estate market is the CEO of Merrill Lynch who finally stepped down on October 30th to clear way to a new path for Merrill Lynch. Stanley O’Neal had little choice after Merrill Lynch lost ne

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Tips on avoiding mistakes of first time managers. Typically, one's exceptional performance, knowledge and experience has given them the ability and opportunity to be promoted into management. However, just because one was knowledgeable and experi

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Tips for employees at any level, including managers, to be better public speakers. Everyone, at some point in time, will have to give a presentation or have to speak in front of an audience. Most people are not comfortable speaking in front of an

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We’ve all seen Swimming With Sharks, Working Girl and the hit NBC show The Office which provide the much recognized “bad boss” that we either know and hate, or generally dread as we start a new position. If you are under the rule of one of these “ni

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Terrorism has been a problem for thousands of years, and it’s only recently that the Western nations have had to deal with it head on. Nine times out of ten, our instinctive response to a terrorist act is to strike back, and strike hard.

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Whatever you do in your first 100 days, my suggestion to you is to focus on gathering information and developing a plan to synthesize and utilize that information. Whichever method you choose, that should be the most important goal. This post will m

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The United States Marine Corps prides itself on the leadership training it provides to NCO’s (non-commissioned officers) and commissioned officers. As a team leader in a corporate environment, what can you borrow from their leadership training that

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I love all that the Direct Selling Women’s Alliance membership has to offer. When you join the DSWA before December 15th, you’ll receive a copy of the best-selling book, “Build it Big”! I own and use the Build it Big book regularly, it’s really a direct seller’s success manual. It’s packed with proven strategies in all areas of your direct sa

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Don’t ask me why, how, or what for, just enjoy this ride!

This week is detective week at my place of employment. Without going into too much detail, our leadership has allowed us to dress as detectives for two days this week so we can try to solve a “mystery” of a decrease in certain statistical categories.

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Scouting gives life skills. Leadership. Friendship. Confidence and organisational skills just to name a few. In this post I identify five things we, as bloggers, can learn from the average Scout to help us build and improve our blog.

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Osama Bin Laden, the most wanted man in the Western world, representing al-Qaeda, the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, released this behind the scenes video from one of their recent video tapings. This video was not released on Al Jazeera.

One Stewie Griffin, however, crashed the taping and ended up actually killing Bin Lad

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With the Japanese government about to sit down to start the first ordinary Diet session, it's interesting to see the topics they're not talking about. Important things like pensions and the future economic security of the nation are all taboo as it could potentially lead to a loss of confidence in the current government.

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Politicians of the criminal conspirator kind are out to sabotage whatever gains have been achieved in good governance by the duly elected Governor of Pampanga. There is a clear pattern to get rid of Among Ed the catholic priest leaving his parish to take on the challenge of providing moral leadership in a province wracked with corruption spaw

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You are not idling when you believe that you are extraordinary. It is important for us to make an impact to the world, we may always think that making impact to the world deals with something big, but we can actually start with even something small, from wherever we are, and one person at a time.

This article gives you

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During Market America 2008 Leadership School in Miami last week, Google and Market America announced their partnership, where Google will enhance the search features of 160,000+ of Market America web-portals and eventually will make Market America web portals the Ultimate Online Shopping Destinations in the next two to three ye

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