A person with the skill to write a good employment rejection letter will find that being a business owner or personnel manager doesn’t have to be stressful. In many cases, the applicant who isn’t successful just wants the truth to be told in clear terms.
Naturally, telling someone they aren’t going to get the job [...]

People with a passion for creating and serving excellent food can open a restaurant and expect a positive response. But doing this is not as simple as putting in a stove and hanging out a sign. Some people start with the idea of opening a restaurant only to find that, in a few months, the [...]

Many years ago, a banker who was nearing retirement told a young man that one day people wouldn’t write checks or use cash. He told the other man that we would someday live in a paperless society. While this isn’t 100 percent true, even in 2010, a huge number of financial transactions take place every [...]

It’s back to the basics when trying to answer this question. In simple terms, a manager doesn’t “do,” a manager “manages.” But what does the word “manage” mean. How did this term come to be applied to the people who make decisions, move people to the right positions within an organization and arrange for projects [...]

In the past two years people have had to pay $4 for gasoline, $3 for gasoline and about $2.50 for gasoline, depending on the interest investors have in speculating on the price of gas. In spite of what most television and newspaper reports state, the wild fluctuations in fuel prices has little to do with [...]

Basic guidelines for running a business state that prices charged for products or services have to keep pace with changes in expenses. A merchant or retail store has to take in enough money to cover rent, payroll, office expenses and so on. This also applies to a semi-official agency such as the postal service, which [...]