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Managing

• Managing Change: Overcome Resistance by Involving Employees
• How-To Collect Customer Debt
• What Investors Look for in You as the Manager
• How to Speak Without Blaming
• Selecting a Sales Manager: Questions For Interviews
• Exit Strategies
• Sarbanes-Oxley squeezes startups
• 7 Quick And Easy Tips To Rescue A Sinking Conversation
• How to Overcome the Six Temptations of Successful Organizations
• 4 Ways to Trim Payroll Without Layoffs
• How To Improve Training For Directors
• Weighing The Risks & Rewards of Doing M&A In Europe
• Perfecting The Agreement For Selling A Closely Held Business
• Differing Practices at VC-Backed Company Boards
• Neglecting To Plan For Disasters Might Lead To Liability For Directors
• The brilliance of a strategy may lie in overcoming powerful secondary effects.
• Winning in the Game of Success
• "After July 8th, pay this amount..."
• How Investment Bankers Affect Acquisition Outcomes
• Lillian Vernon
• Understanding How Psychology Drives M&A Decisions
• Top 20 Leadership Tools You Can Use
• GUERRILLA SPYING
• Solve The Family (Corporate) Feud Through A Provisional Director
• Intelligent Meetings
• The Best Practices of Business Development
• Working Full Time through Pregnancy
• CEO reputations make or break their company's reputations
• How Venture Capital Influences An IPO's Board Composition
• Lessons Learned From Studying Corporate Governance
• How Investors React To IPO Lockups
• FindingThe Right Board Mix Harder Than It Sounds
• Improve Employee Performance
• How To Survive An Earnout
• Make the Family Business Last
• Buy, Ally, Or Divest: How CFOs Decide Which Decision Is Best
• Split A Board In Two: One For Strategy, The Other For Oversight
• Ins And Outs Of D&O Insurance Coverage
• GROW THE CULTURE
• The Importance of Delegation
• Smaller Companies May Soon See Relief From Section 404
• Inflated Golden Parachutes Can Impact Merger Prices Significantly
• Does Birth Order Determine Success?
• To Go Public Or Not to Go Public
• Mergers Benefit CEOs Disproportionately
• How Going Green Can Boost Your Bottom Line
• The Vacation for Entrepreneurs
• Reduce Absenteeism
• Complying With Deferred Compensation Tax Rules
• How the stimulus package can help your business
• Build A Power Team To Attract Customers, Contracts, and Funding
• Happiness as a high-level personal strategy
• Key distinctions that make a leader
• Effective Board Management
• Managing Change: Overcome Resistance by Involving Employees
• How to Speak Without Blaming
• Stinky Reasons for Avoiding Delegation
• Business Intelligence
• Rewarding Success
• Insurance: Deductibles Explained
• Issues To Consider When Buying D&O Liability Insurance
• How To Recruit And Build A Better Board Of Directors
• Using Non-Compete Clauses
• Tips For Negotiating D&O Liability Insurance
• Ten Tips for Building a Better Corporate Board
• Points To Consider When Structuring Joint Ventures

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• Global Business Exchange
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• Handwriting Analysis
  This woman is really good... Check out her website, perhaps order the books or take the seminars! She has shown me many useful secrets within handwriting that tell many things people either are unaware of or won't admit!
• Total Logistics Control
  James R. Pawlik & Associates, Ltd.
  International Logistics & Physical Distribution Consultants
  1611 Russell Court * Arlington Heights, IL 60005-3443
  847-255-3000 * FAX 847-749-3000 * jrpawlik@wowway.com

  “Total Logistics Control” is in a nutshell the result of a six step analytical, development and implementation process that incorporates cost justifiable technologies to deliver your product to customers with acceptable service levels at a minimum total landed cost.

  We first complete a thorough methods improvement analysis of the entire procurement and fulfillment process. We use a Business Process Analysis tool developed for re-engineering projects to analyze the base system and then perform extensive Work Simplification analysis to identify alternatives that minimize average and total process time and costs. We develop standard operating methods, layouts and procedures for all common warehouse labor operations, and develop a rational storage location scheme for the entire facility. Finally, we generate Euclidean location coordinates for all storage and staging locations in the facility to provide an accurate basis for measuring travel distances and time. If you utilize an internal delivery fleet we study and improve transportation operations as well.

  We discuss these recommendations with your Senior Management and develop an Implementation Plan.
  We train your supervisors and laborers to work with and use these procedures.
  We develop and install computer generated Engineered Performance Standards for all common direct labor operations. We have found that the differences between how long it should take (Engineered Performance Standards) and how long it has taken in the past (Historic Standards) are often forty percent or more!
  We train your supervisors to use the Labor Productivity Reporting and Scheduling system to identify problems and take swift corrective action whenever performance does not meet expectations.
  We audit the system annually, and incorporate new and proven technologies using reasonable return on investment criteria.

  Our staff consultants have more than a century of expertise developing and improving warehousing and delivery operations worldwide, and we have completed successful engagements for more than 260 distribution and manufacturing companies.

  We would be happy to visit your facility and provide an accurate estimate of potential improvements and cost savings. We charge only for any travel and lodging expenses incurred and will prepare and present a detailed proposal of services that will include strategies and suggestions that will in itself save your company money. Please feel free to contact me directly for further information and to discuss your specific needs.