Executive Female articles from January 1993

Executive Female archives from January 1993

How to manage an addicted employee.
January 1, 1993... I someone you know is sick, you are likely to treat that person with compassion. You'd feel like a heel if you behaved differently. So how should you, as a manager, treat an addicted employee? Should you approach that employee as someone who's...

Use technology to: organize your data. (software packages) (Evaluation)
January 1, 1993... IF YOU'RE A MANAGER in charge of maintaining reams of data (and what manager isn't?), continuing to organize information using manila folders and hanging files makes about as much sense as writing reports on a manual typewriter. The...

Protecting your business idea. (excerpt from How to Really Start Your Own Business) (includes related article on low-cost protection)
January 1, 1993... You may not have as much to fear from predators as you think. But it pays to be prepared One of the biggest worries of start-up entrepreneurs is that someone will steal their business idea and make millions off it. This often makes people...

Entrepreneurial problem solver: swamped in paperwork.
January 1, 1993... What better way to enhance your business expertise than to hook up with a seasoned entrepreneur who, having found solutions to problems similar to yours, can give you customized guidance. In 1988 the Small Business Administration's Office of...

Franchise finds: tapping into the 50-plus market. (entrepreneurial ideas to meet the needs of older people)
January 1, 1993... Need to say thank you to a client? Consider a gift that keeps on growing. "Gift of a Tree" gift certificates, from EarthPlan, Inc., not only serve as a thoughtful gesture but also help give something back to the environment. Recipient are...

10 ways to make things happen now.
January 1, 1993... An unconventional action guide for modern managers Late on a certain Sunday night - January third, let's say - as you face the unconquerable fact that you have to go to work tomorrow - you'll need more than up-and-at-'ems to see you through...

What does success really mean? (stockbroker Muriel Siebert) (Interview)
January 1, 1993... Her friends call her Mickie the First - and for good reason. Twenty-five years ago Muriel Siebert became the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Having profaned the sanctity of that institution, in 1975 she gleefully...

Off to a flying start: how to make the most of your first 100 days. (Cover Story)
January 1, 1993... THIS IS A STORY OF beginnings. Not just any beginnings, but those trials by fire - the new job where you weren't the shoo-in, the position that puts you head to head with a monster project or has you charting new territory. By the way you...

Keep those great ideas coming. (includes related articles)
January 1, 1993... Stuck in a thinking rut? Take a cue from these three managers who revved up their creativity with some plain-and-simple techniques Mention creativity and most middle managers will begin to tell you admiringly about the creative types in...

Do the right people know you?
January 1, 1993... Networking wisdom holds that your network should always include three levels of people: those younger or less experienced than you, those at your level (colleagues and peers) and those who are older and more experienced than you. Because we...

How do I handle a tricky layoff?
January 1, 1993... After two downsizings, a manager's team has been pared to a small group of top performers. Now she has to let more people go Betty Young,* A manager at Reform Corporation, a company that specializes in high-tech systems, was being asked to...

Staying in the loop in your industry. (includes related article)
January 1, 1993... We all have friends or colleagues who, at any given moment, know who's been promoted at one place, who's gotten the ax at another, and what new product a competitor is about to launch. These mavens of industry networking make it all seem...

Are you goofing off enough at work? Scheduled respites are as important to a productive day as concentrated work.
January 1, 1993... At the end of particularly draining meeting, Patsy Fulton, chancellor of the Oakland Community College in Oakland County, Michigan, will head back to her office and, more often than not, grab her bola paddle and bat the ball on a string for a...

A winter's tale: how we learn from the wisdom of women who have gone before us.
January 1, 1993... How we learn from the wisdom of women who have gone before us It was exactly a year ago, mid-January, on an unusually mild night, that I awoke a few minutes shy of two and saw a woman standing at the end of my bed. Instantly, I knew she was...