The Most Essential Management Tool: A Sense of Humor

Effective management is more than learning how to evaluate an employee, motivate a team, or manage a project to deliver an excellent outcome.  Effective management is maintaining a sense of humor in the face of stress, challenge, and overwork.  It’s about leading by example and showing your team how to stay positive in the face…

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The New Work Ethic

The workplace is changing.  Your team is increasingly interested in personal success, fulfillment and enjoyment of their role in your organization and less interested in the greater good of the organization as a whole.  Unless you engage workers in your business objectives and make those objectives relevant to each member of the team you may…

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Near-Sighted Leadership: What You Can’t See from 10,000 Feet

As I write this post, I am currently onboard an airplane, 10,000 feet up in the sky – the same perch (metaphorically, anyway) that leaders use to view their businesses. From way up here, it is possible to see your company as a whole: what it looks like, where it’s headed, and how you will…

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7 Employee Concerns Managers Shouldn’t Ignore

Whether your business is local or global, retaining good talent has never been more important for firms who wish to compete in today’s digital marketplace. However, despite an unstable economy, knowledge workers are still free agents, and won’t show loyalty to companies that they feel aren’t living up to their side of the employment “contract.…

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