Best practice stories
These posts come from true stories by competent and caring managers like you. They’ll let you bring the latest thinking into your meetings. Browse the search and category menu: there’s probably a post on something you’re working on today!
Know Thy Costs or Meet Thy Doom
Management Best Practice of the Week: 6.2.3 Cost Accounting Cost accounting details the total cost of producing each unit: [...]
When In Doubt Count Something and Divide It By Something Else
How do you quantify cost/benefit? Yes, intuition and judgement are keys to big decisions, but are you using informed [...]
What Else Could Go Wrong? (Risk management)
Use Strengths to Attack, Not Just Offset Risks On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, CFOs from several industries participated in [...]
How Do You Get Agreement on Big Risks?
Assessing, mitigating and collaborating on big risks Susan Dineen, Vicki Holschuh, Steve Johannsen, Bryon Johnson, Mike Markiewicz, Bill Mitchell, [...]
Pricing in a Pandemic
Best Practice of the Week: 2.3.3. Discounts When the pandemic first hit, many businesses were stung by low demand [...]
How to Outrun the Bear (Risk management)
Studies have found we overestimate our ability to influence events that are heavily determined by chance. This is due [...]