The 7 Deadly Sins of Resource Management: How to Find and Fix Costly Drains on Your Business and Create a Change-Ready Organization

By Bruce Hunter

If you’re like most business owners or managers, your company got off to a great start. Energy, inspiration, and business smarts hurtled your organization to success. Maybe you cruised on praise and profit for years, dreaming of becoming the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs.
But suddenly, you’re flatlining. Maybe you saw it coming as the economy tanked or competition gained ground but, either way, your books are like flashing red lights at an accident scene. What happened?

During prosperous times, mistakes are easily camouflaged in high profits. But when the going gets tough, costly errors can sink the ship. Worse yet, mistakes aren’t always easy to spot.
In The 7 Deadly Sins of Resource Management, Core Business Style founders Bruce and Richie Hunter offer their 30-plus years of combined experience to help you find the leaks, understand how they developed, reverse the process, and get you sailing on the high seas once again.

What is your company vision? How does your organization manage change? What about talent and project management? Whether you’re committing just one deadly sin—or all 7—this handbook will help you identify trouble spots and get back on course with valuable strategies you can put to work immediately.

Don’t wait. Large corporations and small businesses alike get back on track with The 7 Deadly Sins of Resource Management. Uncover and repair the issues that are draining your resources, develop clear, aligned goals and objectives for all aspects of your business, and start growing your profits once again—in any economy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Hunter
• Release date: Jan 17, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465718730

Bruce Hunter

As CEO of Digital Data Resources Inc., one of the Midwest’s largest digital imaging companies, Bruce Hunter established DDR as the fastest growing and most profitable document imaging company in the Midwest. Having taken the company from startup to acquisition by a publicly traded market leader, he saw his vision—creating the largest Midwest firm that transferred images onto CDs from paper and microfilm—to fruition and, more than satisfied with his efforts, went in search of new challenges. In 2003, Bruce co-founded CORE Media and, in less than one year, he established CORE as one of the fastest growing print and electronic media properties in Colorado. CORE provided readers with business and lifestyle information, advice, inspiration, and essential tools for success. The bimonthly publication reached over 65,000 readers per issue and averaged 125,000 monthly visitors online. Now with CORE Business Style, Bruce is using his years of experience designing strategic marketing plans and improving profitability to help businesses large and small, with an emphasis on leveraging the power of the Internet.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Resource Management

How to Find and Fix Costly Drains on Your Business and Create a Change-Ready Organization

Bruce Hunter and Richie Hunter

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Introduction

Does this scenario sound familiar? Your most productive employees are working their fingers to the bone and clocking 12-hour days, while those on the lower rungs of effectiveness are sitting around waiting for someone to tell them what to do. Accountability fell by the wayside years ago, outside consultants are no longer delivering results, and the expensive state-of-the-art technology your company invested in is gathering dust while workers go about business the old fashioned way.

If this scene—or any part of it—hits close to home, you’ve come to the right place. Whether your firm is committing just one deadly sin of resource management or all seven, we’re here to help you get things back on course. This handbook will walk you through the critical issues of vision mismanagement, change mismanagement, talent mismanagement, and project mismanagement—all of which take