But they also eat up scarce management time and marketing talent on lines of business that are unlikely ever to grow much.
According to Gilford's Alexander, the company also wasted too much management time and millions of dollars on expanding into noncore businesses and on a fruitless golf-ball patent-infringement lawsuit against Titleist.
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"It was better to reach agreement with Signet and use investors' money and management time to develop the business rather than on contesting a legal action, " Mr Ratner said on Monday.
If Chrysler stages a miraculous recovery with its help, Mr Marchionne would have pulled off something similar to Carlos Ghosn's Renault-Nissan alliance at almost no cost other than diverted management time.
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But the union's Yorkshire regional secretary Tim Roache said is was "disappointing that the landlords of the shops pulled the plug and did not give the management time to turn it around".
Their size allows them to specialise in niche activities for instance, pumping out the last drips of oil from mature fields which giant firms tend to avoid because they take up so much management time.
The average employer spends 350 days a year of management time dealing with formal disciplinary and grievance cases as well as employment tribunal applications, said the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), which welcomed the move.
For an operation as bloated as the federal government such cuts should actually lead to improved performance by, among other things, eliminating those functions that may at one time have made sense, but that are now expensive distractions, expensive not only in terms of money, but also in vital management time.
Not just payroll, but also benefits, talent management, time and attendance tracking and other HR functions.
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New management took time getting used to, and as an investment, Petrobras has been nothing but a let down.
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Is management meeting time spent predominantly on internal, versus external, issues?
While he says he hasn't given it any thought yet, he adds part of the reason he might want to stay for another cycle is to give his management team time to make an impact.
Ball said the splitting of the chairman and CEO positions is a positive for corporate governance as a non-executive chairman should better represent the long-term interests of shareholders giving management the time to focus on running the company.
According to my source, the Alibaba board asked management at that time to come back with a specific plan for a restructuring, but that management never provided one.
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To counteract the biggest myth of time management, which is this: If you work hard enough, organize yourself, and optimize your time, you can get it all done.
The author of the blockbuster time management book series -- which a dvocates personal outsourcing as part of his formula for earning more in less time -- said subterfuge and allowing someone unauthorized access to the company computers is not the way forward.
Right now I make critical time management decisions all day long until I go to sleep.
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Thankfully, there's an entire community of people who specialize in productivity and time management.
E. teaches women comprehensive life skills like communication, problem solving, time management and financial planning.
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One of the core issues I find almost everyone struggling with these days is time management.
Some people do excellent time management and it must carry with it phenomenal reassurance.
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Over the past few years, this time management system has taken the business world by storm.
Their articles span everything from to marketing to tech to time management and so much more.
The bank stressed that it had taken on new senior management since the time the problems happened.
The genial Mr. Deuskar patiently explained his reasons for the move: It's about networking and time management.
It could involve student behavior, or class preparation, or time management, or any number of other things.
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