The lack of trust and respect in the workplace is a massive uncounted cost. Here's how to keep it, improve it, and regain it.

The Department of Minerals and Energy has embarked on a small-scale mining programme aimed at encouraging and facilitating the development of economically viable small-scale mining and mineral-based industries, in line with the government's desire that small miners gain access to mineral rights suited to small mining activity.

Suddenly and silently, the world's demand for ethanol is about to explode, creating a global business that could make early investors wealthy. It's about time! Ever since I first met Elisabeth and began visiting her family's sugar cane farm in Brazil, we've been talking about a future in which millions of cars would run on ethanol.

Soon it will be possible to make product placements in movies even after they have been released. It will even be possible for different brands to appear in movies and TV shows on a regional basis, even on a local basis. It's new territory, with many legal and technical issues yet to be resolved. The only thing that's certain is that it will happen. Here's what it will be like.

How does one go about reaching a point of financial independence? Dan explores money skills used by extremely prosperous People in this concise article.

As patients and medical billing companies, we complain a lot about insurance companies. Hopefully, this installment will give us a bit of perspective of how hard it really is for insurance companies.

In the medical billing industry, a software company must get their software approved for sending claims. In this article, we discuss how this process works.

Does your Canadian company need financing? Read this article to learn about invoice factoring and discounting.

Inevitably, being a technical support contact, you are going to have to speak to a client, whether it's being the first point of contact and they have called you to report a problem, to get more information about a particular problem, or to let them know an issue has been resolved. Unfortunately, in my experience, most technicians do this the absolute wrong way. This article will show you how to be more successful by teaching you the fundementals of communication with people of different skill levels.

The Glass Ceiling in Corporate America can cause many tempers to fly.

Many complain that CEO make too much money, as the average is some 300% more than the rank and file. If the companies were doing well that is no problem, yet if the company is rolling in the profits it would make sense and the shareholders might agree that this is a good policy, as it is a reward for success.

Why is it that so many companies are running into deep trouble despite the measures taken? And why when in trouble these companies are repeating over and over again the same procedures, which in the end didn’t save them? Why would someone expect a different result when repeating the same approach?

Jet Aviation has announced that they have been sold, pending antitrust clearance, to the Permira Funds a leading international private equity specialist. Ending several years of speculation, the Zurich based operator of business jet services has finally accomplished what had long been expected: the sale of the Hirschmann family business to outsiders.

The importance of the follow up in your business.

At one point the Federal Trade Commission had considered that United States based franchisors were to provide franchise disclosures to the potential buyers of foreign countries. This of course is problematic since it is widely known that foreign based companies often steal us trade secrets and copy products and business methods.

Having been in the franchising industry for some time now, I always find it fascinating when a regulator arbitrarily decides that we need more laws. As if we do not have enough laws impeding commerce there is always some regulator somewhere who says we need more rules.

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