In the early 2000’s I worked in the Pentagon for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Torie Clarke.

Learn how Henri Fayol’s management theory shaped administrative principles still used by modern businesses. Explore all 14 ...

“I thought that was OK because it didn’t say I couldn’t do that in the SOP.” Have you ever heard that from one of your crewmembers when you confronted them for making a mistake or bad judgment call?

Effective management accounting practices can improve decision-making in organizations, which need sound fundamentals but also speed when trying to decide which strategic paths to follow. In short, ...

The differences between Unity of Command and Unity of Direction are as follows: One subordinate should receive orders from and should be responsible to only one superior. Each group of activities ...

Long before Covid-19, most organizations knew that they had to make the transition to the cloud. The cloud was clearly the direction that business was moving, with a 2019 report from Gartner declaring ...

A disturbing trend is on the rise for people who serve in a management capacity in healthcare. It hit me when I read Overcoming the Peter Principle, by Andrea Ovans (2014). The Peter Principle is ...

Effective marketing management focuses on the shifting needs and preferences of consumers. Marketing management is the function within an organization dedicated to marketing research, brand awareness, ...

Scrum is a project management methodology that can be used to organize teams during project planning and delivery, in which projects are split into smaller groups of tasks typically completed by teams ...

Critical path management is a method for identifying, scheduling and dealing with tasks that directly affect a project's end date. Unlike project tasks that have some degree of float, critical path ...