Getting Things Done by David Allen
Work doesn’t have the boundaries that it used to have. People carry laptops home and continue working (kinda like what I’m doing), they answer emails while on vacation in Disney World, they take business cell phone calls while out to dinner with their families. These factors are causing stress among the knowledge workforce. No more is there an 8 to 5 factory job and at 5:01 it’s over.
Five Signs of a Troubled Company
Troubled companies often have too many people making rules at the expense of principles. Principles should be the guiding forces behind everything a company does. The most important principle: Customer Satisfaction. A company that initiates a rule for every potentiality without considering how those rules will affect a front line employee’s ability to attract and retain customers will have frustrated employees and dwindling customer transactions.
Weekend Roundup
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January 4, 2008 Edition:
One of the great things about having a blog is being [...]
How to Manage Through an Economic Downturn
How to Manage Through an Economic Downturn
For the past year or so, the housing industry has been suffering through a sizable downturn. The reasons are many: from an overstock of inventory to the sub-prime lending and credit crisis, those involved with this sector of the U.S. economy have seen some rough times. For an excellent [...]
The 5 Levels of Leadership
The 5 Levels of Leadership
Becoming a leader in your organization is not always an easy task. Many times, we need to modify certain personality traits and much of the time, we need to abandon certain ones altogether. NEVER make excuses for your negative personality traits just because” that’s the way I am.” We must constantly [...]
7 Time Management Tips
Your time is the most important asset you have. Unfortunately, there is an infinite number of things to do and only a finite amount of minutes available to get them done. How do you make the most of every single minute? Effectively manage that precious resource!
1. Know where you spend you time by using a [...]
20 Reasons Managers Fail
This is a long post (2,800+ words), but I’m sure the list is still not exhaustive. Please comment and add your reasons for management failure below.
A manger is someone who accomplishes work through others. So what traits or actions cause a manager to fail?
1. Avoiding responsibility when things go wrong by blaming others.
A good manager [...]
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