Friday, September 9, 2011

10 Ways to Motivate Your Employees on the Cheap

Keeping your staff happy, engaged, and motivated to try to to their best work day in and trip should always be a high priority for your business -- in good times and in bad.

But that may be tough when your business doesn't have the cash handy out massive raises, even once they're deserved.

Luckily, motivating staff does not essentially mean throwing wads of money at them. To prove it, we have a tendency to got entrepreneurs and specialists to share their secrets of how, with a very little effort and artistic thinking, you'll be able to build and nurture a team of efficient, loyal, and laborious-working staff without spending money you do not have.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

RIM Investors Push For Sale, Breakup

"The team there has not executed for a prolonged period and that underscores the need for an independent chairman," said James Cole in July, an investor who owns $46 million in RIM stock at Portland Investment Counsel in Calgary, to BusinessWeek.
In a July note to investors, he called for the Waterloo-based smartphone maker to split into two separate companies--a sentiment now shared by Alboini.