Passive people are often superficially very pleasant and eager to please – even too pleasant, and too eager, since passive behavior is generally characterized by the desire to avoid conflict and the constant wish to please others. Passive people tend not to want to face up to difficult problems and […]
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Work often suffers when an employee is practically troubled. Even problems that are not work-related but personal (family issues, debt, illness, and so on) may eventually affect work productivity. Managers dealing with such issues may be able to assist that affected individual or individuals to discover a solution, especially if […]
Coaching is especially used as one of a range of learning activities and training processes when an individual or learner has potential that can best be developed through a focused relationship with a more experienced and senior colleague. It is both a style and a method of conducting a one-on-one […]
Rapid economic and technological change, declining productivity growth and increasing competitive pressures, global inter-dependence, and the blurring of boundaries between distinct organizational entities, all facilitate collaboration. Collaboration is a response to turbulence that individual organizations are unable to manage because of a lack of resources or an inability to control […]
What Exactly is A blog? In the past several years, blogs have gone from the geek underground to a main attraction for media, marketers and businesses. Talking heads babble on the TV about “what the bloggers are saying” and companies are flummoxed on how they can leverage blogs to promote […]
Failure is a wonderful teacher. The new-economy revolution had many of the trappings of a genuine economic revolt: vast fortune forged in a fortnight, dashing young heroes and heroines, rotten institutions brought to their knees. It held such great promise, yet today even the dreams feel thoroughly eviscerated. What to […]
Never in history has business played such a central role and been such a globally competitive endeavor. It’s very likely that what we are experiencing today is an easier time for business with what is projected to occur in future. Staying competitive isn’t just about hiring and developing the very […]
Words are the essential tools of communication. But they are so much more. They convey information, they express emotion, they influence, persuade, motivate. They do all the things that a successful business wants to do – if they are used well. Or, if they are used badly, they undermine a […]
Over the years, we’ve made strategy far more complicated than necessary. Smart people with advanced degrees and high salaries generate elaborate documents containing complex analysis, algorithms, heuristics, scenarios and projections which seldom yield competitive advantage. More than 50% of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies – each with elegant strategic plans […]
In turbulent and uncertain times, it is tempting for companies to wonder whether if they do actually require a strategy. They do. By way of proof, imagine that you find yourself in the middle of a dark and hostile jungle. If you want to get out of the jungle, do […]
