More and more businesses are seeing the value of establishing mentoring programs for their employees but finding it hard to keep up with demand. Matching each employee with a mentor, with all the demands and responsibilities connected with the commitment, is a daunting task. One solution is to form a circle of mentors who can act as a team and share the demands of mentoring.

Many people, including many colleges and universities, are firm in the belief that leadership is an inborn trait and cannot be taught as a field of study. This belief is rooted in the historical context of charismatic leaders who rose to leadership roles as a response to economic, religious, and political events

There is one important leadership quality, above all, that motivates and inspires men and women into action. One KEY trait carries the day and ensures your success in business. Do you have it? Can you recognize it in others? All great leaders have this quality. Read about it here.

In early 1990, American President Companies started double-stack container rail service from Woodhaven, Michigan to Ford Motor Company\'s auto assembly plant in Hermosillo, Mexico. APC coordinates all the information, transportation, and inventory handling necessary to pick up parts and components from vendors and sequence-load them into containers for delivery on a just-in-time basis to Hermosillo.

It would be misleading to make managers and supervisors think that there\'s a secret to motivating and inspiring their fellow employees.

Have you ever encountered a problem only to become stumped trying to come up with a solution? How often have you found yourself saying that there is just no possible answer and you think that you have reached a dead end?

Recently the Six Sigma academy estimated that on an average, Black Belts save companies around $230,000 per project. That\'s a huge amount! The business world is riding high on the Six Sigma wave and the best sailors are considered to be the Black Belts. So who are Black Belts and why are they so popular?

New Research shows that senior managers analyze and act on problems far differently than their more junior colleagues do. Those whose thinking does not evolve may not advance.

Your organization can become more decisive - and can implement strategy more quickly - if you know where the bottlenecks are and who\'s empowered to break through them. Decisions are the coin of the realm in business. Every success, every mishap, every opportunity seized or missed is the result of a decision that someone made or failed to make.

A local newspaper recently ran this headline \"Ohio lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs.\" They blamed competition from India and China.