Very few start-up businesses have the resources to pay employee related expenses such as vacation pay, health insurance, retirement benefits, etc. Ignoring the never-ending stack of paperwork could result in holding back your new business before it has even started. A possible solution could be to hire a Virtual Administrative Support Assistant. More and more people are turning to these highly skilled e-professionals for help.

There are many myths and facts about investing. Some pseudo facts are that, high return investments are risky and low risk investments are safe. The truth is, there isn�t any exact curve that�ll give risks as a function of return. Low return investments can be very risky too when fraud happens, for example. However, the pseudo fact that risk correlates with return have some truth in it. You need to understand what causes it. Money doesn�t make money. People make money. ...

Flogging a dead horse is a commonly used idiom here in the UK. If someone is trying to convince someone else to do or feel something without any hope of succeeding, we say they're flogging a dead horse. This is used when someone is trying to raise interest in an issue that no-one supports anymore; beating a dead horse will not make it do any more work. 1. Similarly, the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover...

Accounting is considered to be one of those complicated yet necessary chores that keep people's financial affairs relatively clean. For the beginner who is just getting started, the process may not be the first obstacle. Often, it is understanding the special language used by accountants and those that work around them. In other words, one must wade through the jargon in order to understand what's going on. The first step in gaining understanding of accounting is to break con...

When business grows crossing the boundaries defined by limited internal resources, including your own and your executives�, it pays to engage the services of external business management consultants. Large business management consulting houses such as McKinsey and Company or PricewaterhouseCoopers, pride in their vast exposures to handling wide ranging business complexities under differing international conditions. Businesses become complex as time passes by and handling t...

Everyone uses discussion in their meetings. While entertaining at parties, discussion seldom produces results.

If the issue is important, communicate frequently, even if nothing has happened. Something is nothing when others wait impatiently for news.

Most companies will face major changes in their organization. To help the transformation process go more smoothly have your leaders engage in change management training. Read on for more.

I'm an alumni of Boston University Graduate School of Business, so I receive the Alumni magazine Bostonia. To be honest, that doesn't mean I read it faithfully at all. But this issue was different. George Labovitz, a professor in organizational behavior at the school wrote an article recently on his research into the application of alignment to achieve extraordinary results in organizations. He caught me with the first sentence: "More than thirty years of research has sho...

If you want to understand why your boss doesn�t know what�s going on, don�t blame the managers between you and the boss, instead look at what happens to information as it flows upward in an organization.