January 23, 4:06 pm
Soon you might get fired eating too many Krispy Kreme donuts. Why? To save on health care costs, your company has instituted a policy that allows them to fire overweight people.
As of this writing, the above policy is fictional. However, some organizations actually have policies that prohibit hiring people who consume legal products […]
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August 17, 12:59 pm
To truly succeed, you need a clear purpose. Yet too often a quest for money and short-term success gets in the way. The dangerous practice of “focusing on the money” has long-lasting, negative ripple effects to your workplace—as well as to your community as a whole.
In August of 2006, three executives at Comverse Technology Inc. […]
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July 8, 9:35 am
by Dan Bobinski
If you’re going to be an effective manager, you better be able to make tough decisions. You also need to be good at communicating appreciation, taking initiative, delegating, and following through with your promises.
Sure, there’s more, but these were ranked as the five most important soft skills for middle managers in a survey […]
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April 12, 9:41 am
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In a 20-year study of US Fortune 500 companies, CEO’s promoted from within significantly outperform those who were brought in from the outside (read the article at management-issues.com).
On my Facebook page, I asked people their thoughts on this. One reader replied “They already know the company, its products and […]
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March 23, 5:04 am
What makes for a quality training program? It’s not the talent or experience of the trainer, it’s not the comprehensiveness of the training, nor even the innate talent of the people participating in the training. The key to having a quality training program of any kind is the desire within everyone concerned that the training […]
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March 7, 4:17 pm
Recently I’ve been digging into some good reading on business operations, and there’s a couple of tasty morsels on the “new book table” I think business people ought to know about–especially if you’re in a small business.
First is the Small Business Survival Guide by Jason Reid.
If you’ve run a small business for any […]
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February 28, 11:23 am
Many people read Creating Passion-Driven Teams and tell me they’d love for me to come teach at their company, but due to time or budget constraints, they can’t do it. Here’s a solution!
Starting Wednesday, March 2, 2011, I’ll be doing a 30-minute Creating Passion-Driven Teams radio show on BlogTalkRadio. This will air live […]
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