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Does Your Property Have Defective Drywall?

Posted by Tina Merritt on 3/1/2010 at 3:27 PM
Posted in Management

Last week, the Department of HUD and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement offering guidance on identifying problem drywall in homes. Drywall from China has been found to cause corrosion and air quality issues in homes where it was installed. The guidance consists of 2 steps for identifying if there is a problem: 1. A visual inspection showing blackening of the copper electrical wiring and/or air conditioning evaporator coils. 2. The drywall was installed between 2001 and 2008. If both of the above conditions are positive, then there are additional tests to determine the presence of problem drywall. 3. Chemical analysis of the more...

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Trump to Boycott Italy

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 1/12/2010 at 3:50 PM
Posted in Management

I have just been informed that Amanda Knox's family has hired a new law firm to help her turn around the injustice that was done in Italy by recently convicting her of murder. I followed the trial closely and Amanda Knox is not guilty. I hope the new law firm, led by a very talented guy named Theodore Simon, from Philadelphia, can turn around this injustice and turn it around quickly. At the same time, I hope somebody in Italy goes after the "wild man" prosecutor who, as I understand, is already being looked at for abuse of power in an more...

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Free Amanda Knox

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 12/16/2009 at 2:13 AM
Posted in Management

There is a disturbing injustice surrounding the Amanda Knox case and I think we should boycott Italy until they do the right thing and free Amanda. Knox was interrogated for over 50 hours in a five day period, and Italian law states that a suspect cannot be interrogated without a lawyer. During part of this interrogation, Amanda Knox did not have a lawyer. When she returned to prison after her conviction, her fellow prisoners cried in disbelief because they knew she was innocent. They should put the prosecutor in jail, not Amanda Knox. I have little doubt, based on what I saw, that more...

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Hand Carts and Airplanes

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 6/12/2009 at 6:29 PM
Posted in Management

After learning that Air France is replacing the airspeed sensors on its Airbus A330 jets following the air disaster--even though there is no confirmed link between the crash and the airspeed sensors--I spoke to a friend of mine who has a hand-cart company. For many years his carts were made of steel, and now they are made of a carbon fiber composite that is stronger and lighter than steel, but has moments of weakness. The carts are made of the same composite material as the Airbus 330 vertical stabilizer/rudders. He also explained that out of many thousands of carts made a year, more...

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Can Corporate Responsibility Work With Wealth Creation?

Posted by Brett Carman on 12/16/2008 at 3:30 PM
Posted in Management

While the two words are easy to say consecutively, we are finding they often do not go together in the real-life practical application. With the exposure we have had to the downfall of corporate giants like Enron, Arthur Andersen, MCI Worldcom and many others now being bailed out by the Feds, it causes me to pause and wonder if wealth creation is possible with a team of honest, hardworking people unified in an effort to take a product or service to the highest level. It seems with each new day we are faced with yet another scandalous indiscretion by either a businessperson or politician who more...

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The First Apprentice: Great Managers Work For the Team

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 12/3/2008 at 10:55 AM
Posted in Management

It's been almost five years since that first season of The Apprentice appeared on television. The first winner was a young man named Bill Rancic, who has gone on to be a best-selling author, a guest advisor on The Apprentice, a public speaker and the host of his own reality show on the A&E Network. Bill has done terrifically well since he became a celebrity after winning The Apprentice in 2004. I chose him above the other candidates because I knew he had the intelligence as well as the ability to be a combination of two things: a team player and a more...

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Management Tips: Trusting Telecommuters

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 9/29/2008 at 6:00 AM
Posted in Management

It takes a good manager - and a great employee - for telecommuting to work. With gasoline prices still uncomfortably high, more companies are allowing their employees to work from home at least occasionally. While that sounds great for the worker, it’s often frustrating for the boss. It requires an unbelievable amount of trust as they hope their charges are actually accomplishing work-related missions and not watching TV, doing the laundry or working on the kids’ science project. In the end, it should be easy to tell if telecommuting employees are getting the job done. Their work output should speak for itself. But more...

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Office Etiquette: No Jerks Office Policy

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 9/26/2008 at 12:35 PM
Posted in Management

Despite what some people might think, being an attorney and being a jerk don’t go hand-in-hand. At least not at one Atlanta law firm, where office etiquette matters. Morris, Manning, & Martin has a “no jerks” policy that everyone - from interns and support staff to the highest-ranking partners - is expected to follow. Employees are hired and later evaluated based on how well they get along with other people. Those who don’t play nice don’t stick around very long. Some actually get fired. “Law firms can be quite high-pressured,” managing partner Bob Saudek told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have so much external more...

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Work Dress Code

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 8/28/2008 at 11:31 AM
Posted in Management

In the summer, many offices have problems with how employees dress. When the temperature soars, it’s as if common sense disappears. People stop wearing appropriate clothes and out come the flip-flops and the skimpy attire that’s certainly at home on the beach or on the weekends, but not in most businesses. I hear from employers that this is particularly true of young people who are working at their first jobs. They just have no idea how to dress for work, so it’s an employer’s place to either tell them or to put a dress code in writing. I’ve always been fairly outspoken about more...

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A Fine if You're Fat

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 7/11/2008 at 12:52 PM
Posted in Management

Tired of a nation that just keeps getting less and less fit, lawmakers in Japan are beginning to fine companies that employ overweight workers. They hope to take a proactive approach to good health, preventing diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases. The country has established waist measurements set by the International Diabetes Federation in Belgium - 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women. (Personally, these guidelines seem odd to me because women tend to have smaller waists than men. But I digress.) If people exceed those guidelines and then don’t manage to lose their extra inches, their employers could more...

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The Hunt for Super-Efficient Cars

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 4/11/2008 at 1:14 PM
Posted in Management

So many people complain about what we’re doing to the environment. Well, here’s at least one chance where people - specifically car manufacturers -- can get paid to do something about it. The Automotive X Prize is a $10 million contest aimed at promoting the creation of cars that get somewhere around 100 miles per gallon while also meeting good standards for low greenhouse-gas emissions, safety, and affordability. In other words, these cars have to be super-efficient and people have to be able to afford them. The contest organizers point out that years and years ago the Ford Model T got 25 miles more...

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Company Ban on Friday E-mails

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 4/4/2008 at 6:46 AM
Posted in Management

I know way too many people who spend way too much time with email. And I know that too many businesses lose money when employees waste time sending and responding to email. In addition, when people spend so much time and energy communicating via email, they lose the personal connection of face-to-face communication. That’s why a company in metro Atlanta has introduced “no e-mail Fridays.” The CEO of PBD Worldwide Fulfillment Services wrote this business plan because he thought that an overdependence on email was hurting productivity and even sales. Some employees receive at least 250 emails each day. There was a lot of more...

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Let Your People Shine: What I Learned from this Week's Apprentice

Posted by Sean Yazbeck on 3/21/2007 at 2:10 PM
Posted in Apprentice, Management, Leadership

Talented individuals are the driving force behind a good company. They’re the difference between high performance and mediocrity. As a manager, you need to surround yourself with the best people. But you have to do something else too . . . You have to let them shine I liked the fact that James was confident enough in himself to do just that with his team this week. It was clear that Tim and Nicole knew just how to handle production and post-production. So James let them run with it - and he then wasn’t afraid to pay them kudos where it was due. Managers, especially new more...

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Managing Difficult People

Posted by Donald J. Trump on 2/5/2007 at 7:34 AM
Posted in Leadership, Management

One of the biggest challenges candidates face on The Apprentice is managing difficult teammates. Even the most talented of project managers often struggles when he or she has to lead individuals who are disliked or disruptive. It drains energy from the rest of the group and it can make the work environment a divisive one. Recently, a combative candidate Marisa was blamed for the downfall of her winning team. She fought ... perhaps too strongly ... for her own ideas and, in the process, alienated and annoyed the rest of her teammates. When it came time to point fingers for the team’s more...

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