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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June 29, 8:17 am
Buckle in, here comes yet another bend in the road. The “Interim Final Rules” (an oxymoron by itself) for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) have just been amended.
According to a newsletter by Anne Wilde, an employment and ERISA employee benefits attorney and principal at The HR & Benefits Advisor, […]
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April 25, 10:06 am
Every once in a while I drop in to Amazon.com to see how my book, Creating Passion-Driven Teams, is doing. So this morning I was pleasantly surprised to see it sitting at number 3 on the Kindle list for books about teams, right behind Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions and Brian Cole Miller’s Nice Teams […]
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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 16, 3:26 pm
Here are the first few broadcasts from Passion-Driven Teams radio. I’ve slated the 1/2-hour show to run live on Wednesdays, starting Noon eastern, 9 am Pacific. People are free to call in to the live show with questions, or they can listen to the archived podcasts.
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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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March 2, 12:50 pm
Here is the first broadcast from Passion-Driven Teams radio. The 1/2-hour show airs live at Noon eastern / 9am Pacific on Wednesdays. People are free to call in to the live show with questions, or they can listen to the archived podcasts.
Here’s the first show:
Listen to internet radio with DanBobinski […]
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