Performance Articles

1). The danger behind peer-to-peer file sharing By : Migz Mon
File sharing is very common nowadays. You can get a P2P (peer-to-peer) program for free, and soon start sharing stuff like music, videos and programs. We use these applications freely and most of us don’t know the risks involved when using them. Questionable reliability of files – Once we get our hands on a P2P program, we download everything we want like crazy.
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2). Problem Solving/Corrective Action By : Terence Traut
Introduction This article introduces the problem-solving model as a technique for managing performance issues that are more controversial, or that are not effectively addressed through coaching or feedback. Issues such as tardiness, being out of uniform, continual poor performance, and others are best handled by a direct, objective approach. By following the Problem Solving Dialogue Model taught in this article, you can feel confident in addressing these thorny issues with employees.
Article Related to: coaching, management, supervision, training, development, skills improvement, mentoring, performance management, performance, corrective action, discipline, problem solving

3). The Importance Of Employee Orientation By : David Gass
Explains how best to conduct orientations for new employees.
Article Related to: employee, orientation, company, retaining, training, firm, business, performance, mentor, guide

4). Ruger Vaquero New Model--Performance Review By : Kelsey Hilderbrand
The Ruger Vaquero has always been a favorite in the single action world, but has always been a model variation of the Blackhawk. The New model Vaquero is truly a stand alone gun and is the first 19th century pistol of the 21st century technology.
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5). Why do we defrag the Hard Disk? By : Stephen Orgill
What is Defragging? Defragging is process done to a hard disk in order to improve performance and recover some lost disk space. Defragging is an essential part of a PC's upkeep as it keeps all the data on your hard disk in an easily readable order. If a hard disk is left without defragging, then over time the disk will begin to lose performance and also slowly reduce the available capacity to data.
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6). Surety Bond Bulk Discounts By : Michael Weisbrot
Every now and then I get a call from a new client asking how much of a discount they will receive for obtaining multiple bonds. I immediately know the conversation will take a bit longer than usual, as I will have to explain what surety bonds are in order for them to understand why they will not obtain a discount for placing multiple bonds. Surety bonds are not an investment bond, rather they are a three party (principal, obligee, and surety) guarantee.
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7). Air Intake Systems allow for more engine power: quick tips for performance By : Chris Andretti
Want to squeeze every bit of power out of your vehicle's engine? Grabbing a high-performance air intake is the quick and easy route to several benefits, including: • An instant increase in horsepower • A noticeable boost to your throttle response • Improved fuel economy • A long-life, washable performance air filter • Specialized engineering.
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8). Using Discounted Closed Ended Funds designed to Increase Income and Reduce Risk By : J Randy Durig
Currently focuses on: Cohen & Steers Select Utility Fund (nyse: UTF) Its investment objective is to achieve a high level of after-tax total return through investment in utility securities. In pursuing total return, the Fund equally emphasizes both current incomes, consisting primarily of tax-advantaged dividend income, and capital appreciation. Under.
Article Related to: funds, investment, asset, allocation, portfolio, bonds, yield, money, advisor, growth, performance, risk, stock, discount, principle, income, profit, invest, equity, diversify, securities, trades

9). The Most Important Management Skill By : Terence Traut
Terence Traut from Entelechy, Inc. draws from interviews, research, and extensive experience to identify the most important management skill.
Article Related to: management, supervision, feedback, coaching, performance, leadership, traits, training

10). Affiliate Marketing Best Days Ahead By : Bobbie Grennier
Crossing the Line - the line between performance and traditional advertising has been breached and the best days of affiliate marketing are ahead. By Greg Shepard Years before the NASDAQ tanked and banner advertising died, e-commerce pioneers like Amazon.com and CDNow began partnering with topic-centric websites to drive revenues, paying a commission for each sale referred.
Article Related to: affiliate, marketing, affiliate program, online, advertising, merchant, performance, traditional, affiliate marketing, web site, strategic relationships

11). Conventional business change is the problem not the solution By : Harry Greene
Since the beginning of business, various methods for operating and developing the business have been identified and refined. These have evolved into the conventional methods that we use today. We improve management and effect business change by adding new conventional methods on the existing methods in place. We now have a large business change and management improvement industry.
Article Related to: business, change, management, improvement, performance, methods, enterprise, governance, investment, re-engineering, transformation, differentiation, collaboration, resource, planning, techniques, conventional

12). Marilyn Manson – high time to retire By : Music Babylon
The golden age of Marilyn Manson was witnessed in 1995 when their popularity slipped high to the top. Their first hit of a cover-version of the "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" by the Erythmics brought them worldwide acclamation. In one year’s time the band seized the title of musical monster, previously belonging to freaky Ozzy Osbourne, who used to perform jaw-drooping acts of biting bats’ heads off live on stage to shock his fan-base.
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13). The Connection between the New Insecurity in Middle Management and Complaints of School Performance By : Thomas Sheerin
There are impediments to the maximization of organizational effectiveness strewn throughout your company. We often focus on lower personnel, blaming the schools for lower standards and youth in general for a lack of seriousness. As business owners or those charged with overall management of the organization, these are easy targets. You generally have little contact with these individuals, most of your knowledge of them comes from your management team.
Article Related to: school, middle management, complaints, performance, credit, training, downsizing, scapegoating, reward, neglect, ambition

14). Replacing administration with capital management By : Harry Greene
Enterprises have a large sums invested in the capital that is utilized in performance, to achieve objectives. Most enterprises don’t even know the extent of what this capital is. There is no manageable organization of enterprise performance capital. People talk of intangible assets like there is a black hole someplace with all that performance capital that we don’t understand.
Article Related to: enterprise, performance, capital, utilization, assets, administrative, function, business, process, strategic, management, improvement, develop, human, accounting, resouces, change, implementation, support, operation

15). Doing More Than the Numbers - How You Do Them is Important By : Paul Phillips
Someone once said "we often hire people for what they can do but fire them for how they do it." There is more to performance than just hitting the targets. Read how to put those other measures in place.
Article Related to: core competencies, performance, measuring behaviour, culture, values

16). Torque Converter Operation By : John Lombardo
The torque converter is one of the least understood components in an automatic transmission equipped vehicle. I will attempt to explain what it does and how it does it. The torque converter has a few different functions. We first need to understand that there is no direct link between the crankshaft and the transmission input shaft (except in the case of a lock up style converter, but we'll talk about that later).
Article Related to: transmission, transmissions, performance, torque converter, high stall

17). 10 Easy Tips to Help Improve Your Website’s Performance By : Tim Hodgson
Copyright 2006 ExclamationSoft Website performance is a reflection of the efficiency and credibility of your company or organization. From the most technical power users to people just learning how the Internet works, a slow website is a slow website. Sometimes the best way to avoid poor website performance is to create a checklist of things NOT to do.
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18). Coaching for Success By : Terence Traut
Coaching is perhaps the most effective method of increasing performance available to managers, team leaders, and colleagues. This article defines coaching and outlines a process for effective coaching. Coaching Defined Coaching is perhaps the most effective method of increasing performance available to managers, team leaders, and colleagues. If you wish to improve the skills of your employees, you must plan to observe them and provide them with feedback.
Article Related to: coaching, management, supervision, training, development, skills improvement, mentoring, performance management, performance

19). Over Weight and Over Heating By : Byron Moore
Vehicle weight is a major issue that many Four Wheel Drive owners are often unaware of or just ignore. This is not only a performance issue but also a safety issue and not just for the vehicle owner but also for other road users. At Berrima Diesel Service ( www.berrimadiesel.com.au ) they usually see half a dozen 4WDs in their workshop every day for tuning, performance problems or turbo charging.
Article Related to: diesel, automotive, performance, tuning, turbo, berrima

20). How to pick the right shares By : SafeInvesting
This is one of the questions that I’m asked the most and it’s an answer that I like to answer in two ways. The more technical or objective way to answer it is to compare your performance to something concrete. For example the market average in your own country. For us here in Australia it’s the All Ordinaries index which has returned well over 40% in the last few years and has averaged over 10 percent per year over the last 25 years.
Article Related to: investing, safe, shares, wealth building, stocks, strategy, selection, performance, improve

21). Website speed: How fast should your website be? By : Tim Hodgson
Copyright 2006 ExclamationSoft How fast does your website load and how fast should it be? People in the industry often talk about the mythical “sub-second page load”, but how many websites actually deliver sub-second response times and is it a realistic goal or expectation? The most popular websites on the web today do load quickly. For example, yahoo.
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22). A Complementary Team By : Martin Haworth
We all have weaknesses. Whatever our roles. In management positions, one of the bigger challenges is to recognise our own shortcomings and alter our own behaviours. Sometimes this can be very challenging...
Article Related to: team building, team, management, success, results, performance, team members, team training, training, leader

23). Good Self, Bad Self By : Patsi Krakoff, Psy. D.
Do you walk your talk? Most of us like to think that we mean what we say and say what we mean. Then why do we keep saying we will quit doing this, or start doing that, and we find we keep on doing the same old things? Most New Year's resolutions end up abandoned shortly after they were made. We are not liars. We are sincere at the time. But soon or later, we find ourselves faced with conflicting emotions, convictions and our real actions.
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24). Strategy As Invention By : Paul Lemberg
Rather than view strategy as a selection of options, here is another approach: creation or invention. Strategic planning is not strategy Strategic Planning, often synonymous with Annual Planning, details how you are going to get where you have decided to go. It is a description of how you will achieve your goals -- those milestones you established in structuring your business plan.
Article Related to: results, income, business coaching, breakthroughs, critical success, performance, business development

25). Handling Statistical Variation In Six Sigma By : Peter Peterka
Six-Sigma provides a methodical, disciplined, quantitative approach to continuous process improvement. Through applying statistical thinking, Six Sigma uncovers the nature of business variation and its affect on waste, operating cost, cycle time, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The term “six sigma” is defined as a statistical measure of quality, specifically, a level of 3.
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