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Small business
Small Business Most people get their definition of "small business" from personal experience in dealing with small retail stores and service organizations. Most people also have a minimum size in mind and overlook a whole category of small business, the very small operations Europeans call... Read more |
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Recruiting
Recruiting Recruiting in the broadest sense is the activity of acquiring new employees to fill a job "from the outside." Filling jobs internally is usually referred to as transferring, reassigning, or promoting people. Recruitment will be more intensive if the job to be filled is "permanent."... Read more |
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Risk assessment
Risk analysis Risk is the chance that something undesirable will happen. Everyone faces personal risks daily; we all have a chance of being struck by a car or by lightning or of catching a cold. None of these are certain to happen today, but they all can and do happen occasionally, some more... Read more |
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Diversification
Diversification In its narrowest meaning, diversification in corporate jargon means participation in multiple industrial activities that do not move in concert as the economy goes up and down. Thus a company that is engaged both in construction and in lumber is not said to be diversified. If... Read more |
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Soils
SOIL CONCEPT If there is anything on Earth that seems simple and ordinary, it is the soil beneath our feet. Other than farmers, people hardly think of it except when tending to their lawns, and even when we do turn our attention to the soil, we tend to view it as little more... Read more |
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Narrowcasting
NARROWCASTING Since the earliest days of advertising, it has been challenging for marketers to reach highly targeted groups with promotional messages about products and services. Printed publications represent one long-established channel for doing this. Television initially was very broad in its... Read more |
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derring-do
derring-do action displaying heroic courage. The term comes (in the late 16th century) from late Middle English dorryng do ‘daring to do’, used by Chaucer, and, in a passage by Lydgate based on Chaucer's work, misprinted in 16th-century editions as derrynge do; this was misinterpreted... Read more |
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Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow Singer, songwriter Headed to Los Angeles Signed with Major Label Silenced Critics with Follow-Up Selected discography Sources After several years of backup singing for established artists—and one aborted bid at launching a solo career—Sheryl Crow burst onto the pop music... Read more |
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