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Jeff Henderson – Catalyst 2013

Ron Edmondson

Jeff Henderson was one of my favorite speakers at this year’s Catalyst Conference. The number of organizations crossing the $50 million budget. The post Jeff Henderson – Catalyst 2013 appeared first on Ron Edmondson. His talk was on what non-profits can learn from for profits. Finances handcuff non-profits.

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Big Thinking for Small Business

Women on Business

Your budget may have limitations, but your imagination doesn’t, so just because you own a small business doesn’t mean you’re off the hook for big thinking. If you want to get noticed in a noisy world, your message needs to be better, not louder. And, it needs to be delivered with polish and panache. Or, big execution.

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Best Practices for Small Business Owners to Secure Government Contracts

Strategy Driven

Over the past few years, spending cuts along with budget uncertainties forced government agencies to yield on contracts. With a new budget in place, agencies are starting to spend money again and are looking towards small businesses to help fulfill their contracting goals. In January, Congress approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill.

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All change for the CIPD – #cipd12

Rapid BI

In the UK, the world’s largest chartered institute for Human resource professionals are in the middle of their annual conference and exhibition. At this year’s #cipd12 event Cheese addressed the membership and other conference attendees for the first time. New CEO of CIPD. The next 100 years of the CIPD. CIPD Culture & Style.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Consider the following impacts of sequestration on Federal health agencies and activities: Cuts to the FY13 budget: $1.71 noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%.

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Use Subtle Cues to Encourage Better Meetings

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, Julian Birkinshaw and I found that knowledge workers spend 67% of their time in meetings. At the Weight Watchers headquarters in New York City, we set up touch-screen tablets outside conference rooms to capture anonymous feedback about our meetings. We chose to install a preformatted whiteboard in each conference room.

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How to Decide Which Tasks to Delegate

Harvard Business Review

Delegation is what resuscitated my business from the brink of collapse in 2013. Hiring more help, while it does make a dent in the budget, has helped me far out-earn the cost of creating a team that I know I can rely on.