Within large companies, people are promoted to management positions to reward them for performance as individual contributors. After all, compensation system limits reward options, so why not just promote them?

In small businesses, owner is getting overwhelmed with all that needs to be done. They think that hiring a manager is solution to give them a little more balance. The hunt begins!

Unless you get RIGHT person for position, both cases have potential for disastrous results!

You can save yourself and others a great deal of stress and angst if you take time to be mindful enough to make an intentional decision.

Here are 10 questions to consider BEFORE you select your new manager.

Getting ahead needn't be a complicated, contrived process of scheming and manipulating your way to top. It ca be as simple and natural as "doing right thing". Here are some tips to succeed in business natural way:

n Develop a reputation for kindness. Genuinely caring about needs of others - customers, managers, co-workers and suppliers alike - is a powerful key to success.

n Keep your ego in check. Be willing to put aside your agenda to benefit mutual goals.

n Remain positive. Resist impulse to get entwined in office grapevine. Instead of complaining, try to look at negative situations another way and make a point to say positive things about people, instead of joining in on office feuds.