Volume

25

Issue

9

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2013

Abstract

News and Features

Are You Creating a Culture of Exile? Five

Warning Signs Your Employees May Lack a Vital

Sense of Belonging Christine Comaford explains

why belonging is such a powerful human drive and

offers tips on what you can do to foster it. . . . . . . . . . 6

How to Handle Embezzlement in the Family

Business Embezzlement in a family business is

not as uncommon as many of us would like to think.

Many factors lead to embezzlement, including

chronic financial strain, a general sense of family

entitlement, lack of internal company controls, and

the reality or perception of being overworked and

underpaid. Action is required. Lois Lang gives us

some advice when this occurs in the family business. . . 14

Appreciative Inquiry: How to Find and Leverage

What’s Right in Your Workplace Chris Walling

Outlines Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a technique in

organizational development which may come to your

aid—a development that asks leaders to shift to a

positive perspective by examining the things that

an organization does well. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Labor (Day) Pains? Five Surefire Ways to Make

Getting Back to Your Post-Summertime Workload

Less Painful and More Productive Right now

most will have to make the annual transition from

laid-back, low-pressure August to nose-to-thegrindstone,

time-to-get-serious September.

Mitchell Rigie and Keith Harmeyer advises taking a

mental journey through future-gazing which can

help ease your transition back to the office. . . . . . . . . 28

Columns

Financial Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Real Estate Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 & 15

Investments and Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

The Lists:

Largest Hotels in the Inland Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Golf Courses in the Inland Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Banks in the Inland Empire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Financial Accountability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Executive Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Manager’s Bookshelf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Restaurant Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Motivational. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Executive Time Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

New Business Lists:

County of San Bernardino. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

County of Riverside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Computer Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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