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Author :: Brent Filson  |
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| Article Title :: The End Of Leadership: Letting Things Happen |
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| Decades ago, a now renowned orchestra leader, just starting out as an assistant, experienced a defining moment that would shape his future. He was rehearsing the Cleveland Orchestra in a Chopin piano concerto. He recalls, "An oboe solo went over me like some kind of tidal wave. I thought, ‘Nothing could make that any more beautiful.' And it came straight from the oboist. It wasn't because I did something."He had hit upon a powerful principle of conducting that would come to inform his style; and in reading about it, I realized it's also a powerful, though seldom realized, leadership principle to inform your career. It's a principle that if manifested daily will make you a dr (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Rabi Jayakumar |
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| Article Title :: FDI In Retailing |
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| We are just hearing from news the variant aspirations and developments of FDI in retail in Indian Domestic market, whether it is a Specialty Retailer, Hypermarket or Super Stores. Now it is matter of challenge to increase our success once they open. Indian retailers need to follow 4 – A`s i.e Acknowledge, Analyze, Alter and ActFew Facts and real threat of largest Retail Company in the World:• 4 out of 10 Women will shop at Wal-mart
• Wal-mart being the largest employer than the US Army
• One in three Procter & Gamble products is sold through Wal-mart
• One out of every five toy purchases happen in Wal-mart
• Wal-mart can demand maximum mar (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Robert Berman |
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| Article Title :: Mitigate Your Corporate Travel Risks! |
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| Corporations are coming under more and more scrutiny in looking after the welfare of their travelling employees. Arguments on whether this is a moral or legal responsibility, how much information is necessary and where is that information going to be obtained is becoming a hot topic in boardrooms around the world with a definite emphasis on North American businesses who have, in the past, been considered to be callous about overall employee safety. Corporate Governance is now a board level committee, employee safety being a key component.Is it okay to send travelers to other parts of the world without providing them adequate up-to-date information on possible political and weathe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Cynthia Krosky |
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| Article Title :: What is Your Tempo for Time |
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| What is your time tempo? Are you impatient when people who use the express lane have one item over the limit? Do you leave for a destination with just enough time to arrive? Then maybe your time tempo is faster than many people who are in your life. We live in a world with different time zones, but what we don’t realize is that the tempo of time is different around the world. Culture shapes the way we approach time and spend time. Our inner clocks dance to the tempo that we are raised with. According to a study done by Professor Robert Levine with the University of Fresno in California, Japan has one of the fastest pace of life, while Indonesia is more relaxed. This placed the United St (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: JoAnn Hines |
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| Article Title :: The Brain Drain |
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| What ever happened to employee loyalty? You know the type: people who went to work for a company at a young age and then stayed there throughout their entire career. I am sorry to report that those days are long gone. The mantra has become to stay with a company for three years and then move on. In fact, today if you haven't changed jobs several times throughout your profession it’s considered a detriment to your career.One of the biggest problems in corporate America today is what I call the Brain Drain. It is a simple as it sounds – these employees are tapped out. Their brains have been drained. It is amazingly apparent when you look at the number is women who are leaving cor (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Paul Lemberg |
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| Article Title :: Unreasonable Requests |
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| "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for RevolutionistsIt is probably the number two task of leadership -- asking. You ask people to do things, and when they do -- well, stuff happens.But what really extends your ability to make big things happen is asking for things that are "unreasonable."What is unreasonable? Asking people for things you have no right to expect from them, which under ordinary circumstances, you would expect them to say, "no." But asking anyway.The trick is to expect (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Michael Beitler |
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| Article Title :: Learning Management Systems |
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| All of us should be familiar with what’s happening with learning management systems (LMS). As organizations move away from a training mindset to a learning and performance culture, LMS will play a central role.The organization’s LMS should be more than a training documentation system. In a recent article by LMS-guru Elliott Masie, Elliott listed the following expectations for a fully implement LMS:* a “dashboard” for managers that highlights what their teams and individuals are learning* an invitation-to-learn system that personalizes and targets individuals based on their current projects and performance goals* a system to create and maintain a social (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Liz Cassidy |
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| Article Title :: Project Management – How To Do Cost Benefit Analysis – To Go Ahead Or Not? |
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| With each project we have a desired end point, a definition of success. We spend time, and energy, creating solutions and plans to solve a problem or get to a desired end point; however we may not go ahead with plans because they are not simply financially viable or just too expensive.Cost Benefit Analysis is a simple and widely used technique for deciding whether to make a change or to go ahead with a project.As the name suggests, simply add up the value of the benefits of a course of action, and subtract all the costs associated with it. This calculation may be dollar focussed or undertaken on a more qualitative variation.Costs are either one-off, i.e. a single expe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Daniel Roshard - |
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| Article Title :: The Modular Office |
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| Modular office is a great way of solving your office space problems, from construction sites to golf courses, a lot of businesses are using modular office solutions today.
Modular offices can be found throughout the country, in all regions and areas, this is mainly due to the fact that modular office building has progressed significantly over the last decade or so, and modular offices today can be used as a multi functional moveable spacing solution, the modular office can be designed to cold and warm areas, to keep humidity out and to securely hold any kind of material you need to store.
If you are thinking about getting a modular office for your backyard, or for y (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Kay Wais |
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| Article Title :: Project Management Confidence |
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| If you have been doing project management for a while, your confidence has probably gotten an occasional shaking. And the resulting lack of confidence hurts you, but it also hurts your team members who need you to be confident and not self-conscious. You’re their leader after all, and they want you to have a strong plan, vision, self-esteem and the confidence to lead.Obsessing over our personal and organizational shortcomings traps us. We may think it is for our own good – to help us truly learn from our past mistakes. But it can spiral downward into embarrassment and shame. And if you find this happening to you, the best advice is to turn it around early. Take the lessons lear (read full article) |
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