Executive Female articles from March 1992

Executive Female archives from March 1992

Budgets from hell. (cutting budgets) (includes related article)
March 1, 1992... THE VICE PRESIDENT of your division has just told you the bad news: You have to cut your department's budget by 15 percent. The cuts are entirely at your discretion. That means over the next weeks you'll be making a number of diffcult...

Use technology to: stimulate creative ideas. (Evaluation)
March 1, 1992... You're trying to develop a new slogan for your company's summer sales campaign. But despite countless attempts, every phrase you come up with is a tired cliche. What now? A brainstorming session with coworkers has often helped dislodge a...

7 questions bankers ask ... and you must answer. (business loans)
March 1, 1992... IT'S A FACT OF entrepreneurial life: As far as bankers are concerned, when it comes to loan applications, they have to sort through an awful lot of junk before they find the few loans that fit the needs and policies of their bank. How can...

Entrepreneurial problem solver; managing inventory
March 1, 1992... Managing inventory is a tricky business. If you order too much, all your working capital is tied up. Order too little, and you lose sales. Gloria Brooke, owner of Brooke Pottery, a four-year-old shop in Lakeland, Florida, had a problem...

Recession anxiety? Here's how to keep it from paralyzing your business.
March 1, 1992... ACROSS THE nation, the recession is taking a real toll on small-business finances, and the squeeze is causing high anxiety among business owners. Many are beginning to wonder if they will weather the storm. Although worry is understandable--a...

Maid services mop up: franchise finds.
March 1, 1992... As more and more women join the work force (they now make up 47 percent of it), maid services have become a necessity instead of a luxury. Working couples and single parents, particularly hardpressed for time, don't want to spend weekends...

You're fired! (strategies for the next 72 hours) (includes related article)
March 1, 1992... "DON'T GET MAD, GET EVEN" is a popular saying and, if you've just lost your job, a terrible piece of advice. You deserve better counsel. Because what you do and how you react during the first few days after you've been fired will determine...

Managing money without a paycheck. (includes related article on filing for unemployment insurance)
March 1, 1992... At first, you may panic--especially if you've never lost a job before. You're spending every penny you make. How can you live on a nickel less? This very month, the bank will foreclose on your mortgage. The creditors will cart off your...

How does a business grow? (Hue Inc.) (Company Profile)
March 1, 1992... MANY BUSINESSES GET STARTED on a shoestring. Sandy Chilewich and Kathy Moskal started theirs on a pair of black shoes. In 1978, on a whim, the partners (who were neighbors at the time) took a pair of Chinese cotton shoes they had uncovered in...

Is it time to leave your mentor?
March 1, 1992... HE STOMPED INTO MY OFFICE, eyes blazing. "We've got to talk," he said. I'm not going to be treated like this." These may sound like the words of a spurned lover, but they're not. This man of fury happened to be my boss, as well as my mentor....

Big company, small company: what's best for your career?
March 1, 1992... ASK INGEBORG HEGENBART WHETHER she prefers working for a small bank, as she does now, or a large bank, and she doesn't hesitate: "The difference is like night and day . . . and this is the day!" Hegenbart joined $4 billion Southern...

Why I hate networking.
March 1, 1992... I'd been caught! Arriving at my third holiday party of the season promptly at 5:30 PM, I found some club soda and moved to the hors d'oeuvres table where a colleague informed me that dinner wasn't being served until 7:00 PM. "Ugh! An hour...

What is Washington doing for working women?
March 1, 1992... Now that we're in an election Year, our elected officials (and hopefuls) can probably be counted on to notice those of us who jump up and down and wave our arms. You would think that with 57 million American women now in the work force (almost...

How to be absolutely the last person they lay off.
March 1, 1992... MAKE MONEY, SOLVE PROBLEMS These days, the most valuable employees are the ones who can make money for their companies. As a sales manager, this has always been very apparent to me, but today it's more obvious to any manager in any...

How to get the real scoop on a company.
March 1, 1992... AT THE LIBRARY * Business Periodical Index * Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature * Info Track and CD-ROM Computer Indexes Use these to help you locate almost any article that's ever been written on a company. The...

How's your office diplomacy? (business etiquette)
March 1, 1992... DON'T BE FOOLED into thinking that what goes on in the business, arena is ever strictly business. It's often no less a social situation than your dealings with that least favorite brother-in-law at a family get-together. Say your boss...

Investing in woman-friendly companies.
March 1, 1992... BEFORE PLUNKING down their money, a growing number of investors these days do more than check performance ratings. They also look to see how the investment measures up against their convictions. Since socially responsible investing (SRI)...

The most important points in a working mother's day.
March 1, 1992... THERE ARE times when every working mother feels that she suddenly has stepped into a world where the rules of sensitive maternal behavior are still being defined. The kind of good-bye to give at a daycare center or what to do about morning...

Ride out the recession. (Column)
March 1, 1992... THE MOMENTOUS EVENTS OF 1991--our military victory in the Middle East, the nonmilitary defeat of communism, which ushered in the reduced threat of a nuclear holocaust--seem to matter very little. Many of us harbor, instead, an unsettling sense...

How do you grow a work ethic? (Column)
March 1, 1992... A MEMORY FROM THE SUMMER OF 1966 is vivid. It is late afternoon in mid-June, and I am sitting at my desk in the reception foyer looking out the window of a two-story pink stucco Los Angeles office building that had once been a motel. The...