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!
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 [...]
Here’s a Little Extra Something (Compensation)
Best Practice of the week: 5.5.2 Performance Pay How to reward an employee's heroic efforts when cash is tight? [...]
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 [...]
This Won’t Hurt a Bit (Safety)
Every year, work injuries cost industry $170 billion. In the public sector, it’s $159 billion. A safety-first attitude is [...]
In Sports, the Goal Doesn’t Keep Moving
We’ll bet your goals have changed in the past six months… There are three basic types of management short- [...]
How Can You Build Optimism in Hard Times?
The Center's Workgroups are optimistic they can help people stay optimistic Best practice question: How can you build optimism [...]
How Do You Manage a Prima Donna?
The “big producer” is always a net loser for the firm. Unless you’ve got a genius like Frank Lloyd [...]