This is the first post in a series about developing an expansion stage product management team. To read the intro to the series, click here. Image Credit: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net In ...

The conventional view of a manager is someone who controls and directs his employees. Management theorists still cite controlling as one of the four management functions. Despite this label, ...

When I ask leaders and teams to concisely summarize their company’s management approach, the pause I get hangs in the air like a frisbee tossed on a windy day. No one seems to know which direction the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I teach growth leaders how to grow revenues, profits and firm value. The proposal management function is a valuable commercial ...

No matter what your management style, participatory, directing or teamwork, four broad management functions are demanded of you. As a manager, your primary tasks involve managing people who are ...

One of the problems with many risk management functions, as I see it, is their reporting structure. The ideal is viewed by many (including regulators) as reporting directly to the board or a committee ...

In the following article, from 2014, I discussed an organization-related issue that limits the overall positive impact the purchasing function can have on company financials. Specifically, the article ...

LONDON/NEW YORK(Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence) - This is the first of two articles looking at policy management. It focuses on basic policy management principles, while the second will look ...

The role of the account person was incredibly critical to an agency’s success up until perhaps a decade or so ago when agency fees got so thin, they simply couldn’t afford that layer of staff. So ...