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Four Questions About Leadership
I hear four questions asked about leadership often. This article gives a short answer to each of these important questions.
Why Does Leadership Matter?
Parents universally hope that their children develop leadership qualities. They know that lead...
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Should Quality Controllers be Sacked?
There are various factors to consider when buying a product, but the two main
areas must surely be price and quality.
Price is easy - the only three options you have are up, down or same. That's
it. Quality is much more involved. Firstly we cannot ...
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Assertive Behaviour Recognises That Reality Is A Construction Of The Mind
Gentle assertiveness is founded on tolerance and respect for others. It entails the need for envisaging the possibility that others may have good reasons to see things differently. Truly assertive people are creative and accommodating, while aggres...
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Is An MBA Necessary For Managers?
Do MBA’s make better managers or business leaders? The MBA debate continues furiously. So is the popularity of MBA programs worldwide. Though popular the management studies might be they make a very miniscule percent of successful CEO’s and busi...
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Infighting Labor VS Corporate Executives, Who Started It?
It seems like whenever we open the financial news we see the unions suing a company or going on strike, claiming the company is cheating them, over working them, unsafe work place, not enough benefits, low pay or messing with their pensions. Then t...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Lance Winslow
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Systems Thinking and Open Systems in Organizations
Systems thinking is important for Organizational Change (OC) practitioners (and managers) because rarely is there an "evil" person in the organization bent on bringing pain and destruction. Bad behavior, or ineffective behavior, is often unwitting...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Beitler
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Why Do I Need a Board of Directors
Family ownedprivately held organizations in wholesale distribution, both small and large, with succession issues, family preparation and second and third generation leadership issues have been subjected to the evolution of leadership. These organi...
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Managers Need To Keep It Real
I spent last Thursday hosting several staff training sessions at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. It was incredible! From the housekeepers to the bellman to the sales force, all employees at the property made it obvious why they're one of the m...
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Giving Effective Feedback
If there is one area that gives both managers and employees difficulty it is the need to give and accept effective feedback. It is one of the most crucial elements in assisting employees to improve their performance. It establishes a connection bet...
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Business Continuity Testing
Disaster Recovery is not Business Continuity. Many companies do not have full business continuity plans. They say they do have business continuity plans but they really mean that they have a disaster recovery plan, usually meaning that they have ...
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Cost Reduction - Get Extra 10-20% Profit
1. Elimination of waste.
The single most important factor contributing to costs is wastage. Eliminating waste can by itself cut costs from 10 to 20%. The main areas of waste are:
(a) Input Waste: Substandard quality rawmaterials and other inputs w...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : G Ram Kumar
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Six Sigma is About More Than Just Number Crunching
Top executives who know only that Six Sigma is famous and popular have called for the implementation of Six Sigma programs, and, of course, want to see numbers. They may become very enamored with the copious numbers that Six Sigma produces. Unfortu...
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Reduce Flying Stress While on Business Trips
Flying for business trips adds stress to any businessperson. One of the greatest fears for most people is flying. With the recent Air France crash at the Toronto Pearson Airport, some flier’s stress may be at an all-time high. However, it is possib...
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Are Your HR Hiring Policies Strangling Your Companys Economic Survival?
If you walk the streets of some towns, you can almost always pick the people who work for certain employers. It may be my weird sense of humour, but each time I see one of these people, I imagine the Human Resource officers squeezing the new hire i...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Jean Dickson
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20 Questions To See If You Are Ready To Outsource
Some companies are jumping into software outsourcing before they are ready. They hire a team, sometimes the wrong one, and then expect them to start producing software right away. In their rush, they skip the planning, goal setting and careful eval...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Steve Mezak
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Management of Growth - Just Stick to Your Rules
Your company cannot without growth. And to make this growth possible you need various types of resources of which the human resources are the most important. They determine the way in which the other types of resources like systems and infrastructu...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Hans Bool
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Use Flex Meetings To Improve Communication & Increase Productivity
Meetings are expensive. The more people at a meeting, and the more time spent the more expensive. That's one reason why meeting planning and management is so important particularly when we've moved to a more team based system of work. Effective mee...
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Strategic Organizational Learning
The cost of training in North American companies exceeds $60 billion per year. Try to visualize that. Picture a stack of 1,000,000 $1 bills. Now try to picture 60,000 of those stacks. Amazed? Then consider this fact: estimates of training costs wor...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Beitler
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Business Basics - Priority Versus Sequence
We all know (well I hope we do) that part of being a good leader is in the art of delegation, trust, and looking after the people who look after us (good topic for another article!!!)
BUT who looks after us, how do we look after ourselves?
How ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Andrew Gowans
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A Better Way To Work - Workplace Democracy
Recently, during a discussion with Suman, a co-worker in the car while stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a client meeting in Gurgaon, I shared the vision of transforming Srijan into a company in which all its members collectively manage the grow...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Rahul Dewan
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Your Image Can Affect Your Success
Hi!
Recently one of my clients was looking to hire a financial controller for her business. Out of all the people who applied, the most suitable person was John.
John had most of the attributes Jenny was looking for. Using our tip sheet Hiring the ...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Lorraine Pirihi
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Eight Ways to Motivate Part Time Employees
In most cases, part-time employees present a special
challenge when it comes to motivation. They do the "grunt"
work, have little career choices, are often focused on other
goals outside of your organization (college, hobbies, etc.),
and are treat...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Ed Sykes
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Leaping Asset Management Hurdles
I attended ECPweb's Software and Asset Management Summit '04 at The University of Chicago to deliver a workshop on software auditing and compliance. It was a great opportunity for me to talk with other industry professionals as well as to speak wit...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Donna Johnson Edwards
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Quit Tolerating Crybabies
I bet you have some employees, colleagues, family or friends who are crybabies.
Definition: In our SPONTANEOUS OPTIMISM® book, we define a pessimist as someone who loves to do three things:
1. Complain
2. Blame
3. Moan
They are “Loser Magne...
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rating : 0.00, 0 votes. Author : Michael Mercer
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