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Daiv Russell's Articles in General Business

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  • Can Maslow's Theory Help With Hiring?
    The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs focuses on the business community more than any other facet of life. Conflicts are often prevalent in the business world because the people involved are typically in varying stages of life. The dichotomy between the lives of the entry-level employee (just starting out in life) and the middle manager (who may be more settled) can effect these conflicts.
  • Gantt Bar Charts: Your Guide to Better Project Management
    The meaning of project management is working within defined constraints to organize and manage resources (people, for example) to complete the project within those constraints, whether those resources are scope, quality, time, cost, or all of the above. The kinds of tasks to be managed could include constructing a restaurant or implementing a new medical system.
  • Get Heard with Conference Call Etiquette
    Have you ever attended a teleconference call where there was background noise which made it difficult to enjoy the call? Have you been on a call where participants are talking over each other or someone is speaking and you have no idea what their name is? Maybe you could never contribute because every time the facilitator asked a question, there were one or two people who always jumped in and didn't stop talking, and the facilitator didn't have control of the situation.
  • History of Project Management: How Did We Get Here?
    Project Management, as we know it, began to gain ground around the beginning of the 1960s. At this time industrial and business organizations were starting to recognize there were benefits associated with arranging work into separate projects. In doing this, work could be done by multiple departments, working as a cohesive whole. It was this realization that led to project management gaining widespread acceptance.
  • Matrix Organizational Structure: Optimize Cross-Departmental Relationships
    Prior to 1970, big organizations were usually arranged in a "silo" formation. In this organizational scheme, line or functional managers were held accountable for different divisions of workers in the company. Since those times, businesses have tried to revamp their organizational structures into something that works better. The result is called a matrix organization.
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