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The
following
checklist will help you identify and determine the effectiveness of
the management and organizational structure of the firm. If you
answer yes to most of the following questions you are effectively
managing your firm. A no answer indicates that you need to focus on
this management issue. y/n
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Are
responsibilities clear and matched by authority?
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Is your
business structure clear yet flexible?
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Are
communications focused on finding solutions rather than placing
blame?
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Do people have
the information and resources necessary to do an excellent
job?
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Do you and
your employees care about the business?
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Does staff
come in early and stay late on their own initiative?
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Are mechanisms
for conflict resolution working?
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Is disorder
minimized and channeled?
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Can people
joke with and about each other and you?
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Does a
corporate plan spell out the firm's vision?
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Do employees
pitch in unasked during a crisis?
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Do customers
and suppliers prefer to do business with you?
About the
author:
Dr. Lance Chambers is a Futurist, Strategic Planner and Engineer by
profession and is a well regarded data analysis expert. He has run his
own consulting firm and has worked in private industry and government
in his earlier working life. Today he develops web pages for the net
and offers his expertise free of charge on-line.
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