Patrick Cavanaugh
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Articles by this Author
Why Do Clients Distrust Contractors?
- By Patrick Cavanaugh
- Published 08/9/2008
- Ethics
- Unrated
If we start out with this question, what comes to mind? Where does this come from? Kind of like, which came first the chicken or the egg? I really believe that the person that holds the purse strings is one of controls the situation. So where do bad contractors fit in?
Motivation and Productivity
- By Patrick Cavanaugh
- Published 08/11/2008
- Team Building , Management
- Unrated
If we believe that happy employees are motivated employees then here are 8 ways to keep them motivated.
Job Costing
- By Patrick Cavanaugh
- Published 08/11/2008
- Economics , Sales
- Unrated
Job costing is a technique for evaluating performance on individual jobs. It is also a way to maintain historical data, to use to estimate future work. The calculation of costs on a job by job basis helps to take our financial temperature. How is this crew doing? How are we doing on this type of work?
When to Fire
- By Patrick Cavanaugh
- Published 08/11/2008
- Human Resources , Leadership , Management
- Unrated
I read once that if you keep talking about an employee to your spouse over dinner, then it's time to fire that person. I used to do that. I used to believe that I could change someone and that if I tried this or that eventually that person would come around. You just can't force a square peg into a round hole. I regret the time wasted with that belief. Many times I should have fired someone faster than I did.
Estimating Software
- By Patrick Cavanaugh
- Published 08/17/2008
- Software
- Unrated
A lot of people my age are PC shy, in other words they are afraid they will break the PC by using it. On the other side of the seesaw are the younger people entering the market place that never knew a world that didn't have a PC. Most kids today have confidence and experience around PC's; because, they use them in school, the library and at home, from their early years.