Ever considered why we do what we do? Why we bought that car or those clothes? Was it really because we needed them or was it some other reason.

Whether you’re a consultant on a new assignment or have just navigated the recruitment and interview process to snag your ideal job, new joiners face many challenges.

Public speaking is considered a potent business development vehicle.

During his early years of heading emerson consulting group inc., many of Ken Lizotte’s (CIO) clients came his way with the unrealistic expectation that publishing articles and books regularly would automatically expand their clientele and boost revenue.

For the last several years, the focus for business management has been finding ways to cut costs.

Many businesses are looking to refresh or transform their desktop environment by adopting utility computing and virtualisation.

Business intelligence (BI) has been heralded as a powerful tool for aiding the decision-making process since the 90’s.

Having the right people in the right place at the right time is critical in a people-focused business such as consultancy.

The ability to plan effectively is crucial for professional services firms operating in billable markets such as accounting, consultancy and law.

We’re all aware of our five senses: sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing.

In February 2011 management consultancy firm ATOS, first announced that it would end all internal email use by 2014.

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Commenting on reports that technology giant Atos is to phase out internal email as a means of communication, social email provider harmon.ie says Atos’ plan is bucking the industry trend -- a classic case of ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater,’ as the old adage goes.

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Last century business names were colorfully dressed with uniquely stylized lettering, colorful logos, slogans and contextual support.

I was living on the West Coast of Scotland in between trips to Venezuela to help an oil exploration, drilling company understand how valuable their crews were, if only they would listen to what they were saying.

The dictionary defines workout as a "physical or mental effort or activity directed toward the production or accomplishment of something." Sounds just like our workplaces where effort is expended to provide either a product or a service.

The growing notion among big advertising agencies and brand marketers is that as search engines find answers instantly, there’s no real need to enter a domain name in the browser and therefore domain names are far less important.

The word GTLD has been added to the hardcore lexicon of global branding.

Back in the 60s the only technology on an employee’s desk, if they were lucky enough to have any at all, was a telephone.

Mercer has outlined eight principals of employee communication that managers should follow during the current economic uncertainty to help bolster employee morale and engagement.

Introduction The current commodity boom is more a decade old.

Europe in quite short time periods has gone though enormous change.

What has emerged over the past year with great clarity is that there are two forms of confidence governing business leadership behaviour – external and internal.

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One hour north of Ely, MN, off a gravel road called Echo Trail, Little Indian Sioux River meanders through lily-pad waters and past beaver houses to meet Loon Lake.

Each day your workforce is busy editing hundreds, if not thousands, of documents that are shared back and forth before they’re finalised.

Same-store sales are looking a little flat and you need to find ways to deliver better results.

A strong reputation, or brand, is a promise.

The first step is to understand your brand.

Living through a crisis isn’t the easiest or optimal way to build your brand.

Director and board development is covered in my book Developing Directors on building an effective boardroom team.

When it comes to broadcasting your achievements in the workplace, there’s a fine line between positively poised and aggressively arrogant. Some magazine articles I’ve read suggest that men publicise their good work as and when they complete it, puffing out their chests and shouting “look at ME! I’m great at my job!” Women, on the other hand, are said to naturally adopt an air of quiet modesty.

I have taken part in many business turnarounds in my career, and time and again noticed the same problems, regardless of whether the reason for the turnaround was a relatively minor situation or a reorganization after bankruptcy.

Once a business gets beyond a certain size, even the most attentive of management teams will have trouble knowing exactly what is happening throughout the organisation.

In business, a revolutionary approach that promises rapid change over a relatively short period of time is often alluring.

Most people think of LinkedIn as a business-related social networking site to keep track of business contacts and present own skills and professional experience to the world.

It started at the rental car turn-in location.

The superstar movie rental giant Netflix rapidly graduated to movie streaming and suddenly splintered the old fashioned DVD movie rentals and created Qwikster, a separate division with a name identity inspired by the sorts of Twitter and Napster.

Is $185,000 the right price for a single gTLD? No, it’s definitely not.

There are CEOs who are immersed in blogging.

It’s all too easy for organizations to close whole departments to take cost out, so no wonder widespread austerity drives are having a direct effect on vital front-line services.

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Gary Elliot, chairman of the Association of National Advertisers and vice president of global marketing at Hewlett-Packard, wrote a column in Advertising Age titled "ICANN’s Promises Aren’t Simply Speculation, They’re Outright Fantasy" https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/icann-s-promises-simply-speculation-outright-fantasy/229594/ His arguments opposing ICANN gTLDs are similar to the other heads of various advertising associations around the world. While the main powerbrokers of the global advertising sector are mum, their association heads are using the same circulated message of cyber-squatting fears without any solid proof.

You’re writing a report when your smart phone rings.

Federal agencies (they spend more than $500 billion annually of your tax dollars) have been instructed to reduce their budgets by 10% in 2013 per a directive from the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Many years ago when I was given my first management role I was given less than an hour’s preparation.

There is a growing awareness today of the destructive nature of traditional management practices, usually called command and control management.

The end of August marks the end of summer vacation and the beginning of planning and budgeting season.