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Author :: Skip Reardon  |
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| Article Title :: Seven Steps To Successful Change in 2006 |
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Are you satisfied with the way your business is performing today?
How about next year?
Specifically, what are you doing to make 2006 a banner
year for business improvement?
What are you going to do differently?
What are you going to do - to change?
The challenge is how to change, not if.
Following are seven steps for effective change:
1. Create a commitment. Define a shared vision of what
you want to commit to it. Without a clear commitment, you'll
create chaos for the change you want to achieve. Creating the
commitment brings you back to what you want to achieve and
allows you to measure your activities against this commitment --
and ensures that (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Paul Duxbury |
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| Article Title :: Five Simple steps to your first eBay sale! |
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It's surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first
auction on eBay. Here's what you need to do.
Step 1: Open an eBay seller's account.
If you've bought things on eBay, then you already have an
account - just log in with it and click 'Sell' in the toolbar at
the top of the page, then click 'Create a seller's account'. If
you've never used eBay before, then you'll need to open an
account first using the 'register' link underneath the toolbar,
and then click 'Sell' and 'Create a seller's account'. The eBay
site will then guide you through the process. For security, this
may involve giving card details and bank information.
Step 2: Decide what to sell.
For your first little exp (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Mike Beitler |
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| Article Title :: Large-Scale Organizational Change: Look Before You Leap! |
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I am often asked, "Should organizational change be done quickly
or slowly over time?" and "Should management attempt large
radical changes or small incremental changes?" The safe answer
is, "It depends."
The literature on organizational change identifies two general
types of changes: first-order change and second-order change.
First-order change gets less attention because it is less
dramatic. It is incremental and evolutionary in nature. We see
first-order change today in organizations in the form of quality
improvement programs (e.g., TQM or Six Sigma). First-order
incremental change is also important after large-scale,
organization-wide, second-order change.
Second-order change is disc (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Sergey Dudiy, Ph.D. |
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| Article Title :: Top Nine Tips for Better Teamwork and Team Building |
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Team building and teamwork skills are critical for your
effectiveness as a manager or entrepreneur. Even if you are not
in a leadership position yet, better understanding of teamwork
can make you a more effective employee and give you an extra
edge in your office.
Team building success is when your team can accomplish something
bigger and work more effectively than a group of the same
individuals working on their own. You have a strong synergy of
individual contributions. But there are two critical factors in
building a high performance team.
The first critical factor of a teamwork success is that all the
team efforts are directed towards the same clear goals, the team
goals. This relie (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Adam Espiritu |
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| Article Title :: How Two Little Kids Schooled Me In Motivation Techniques |
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I motivate people for a living, but I got a Hard Lession on
Motivation Techniques Here!
To make it quick. Here's a summary of what I learned
-Make them teach themselves -People will take advantage of you
if you let them. -Different languages are not always a barrier.
How can these Motivation Techniques Translates into
Workplace Motivation.
I have a useful story for you. I hated babysitting my younger
cousins. Remember I love them though. They are my cousins. They
were just a few years younger than me, and they always would
depend on me for everything. For some strange reason, I was
responsible to do everything for them. They would ask me where
stuff was and how to do t (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Mike Beitler |
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| Article Title :: Participative Management in Organizational Change |
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I recently read an article in which the author said, "Senior
managers are becoming more accepting of participative management
and employee involvement because they (senior managers) are
becoming more humanistic." Nonsense!
Anybody who works with senior managers as a management
consultant quickly realizes that most managers enjoy the power
vested in their positions. Many of these managers are not
interested in sharing their power and decision-making authority.
Organizational Change (OC) consultants who argue for
participative management and employee involvement for humanistic
reasons will surely meet resistance.
Nido Qubein, in his audiotapes on marketing professional
services, said, "don' (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lonnie Pacelli |
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| Article Title :: Pragmatic Consulting from the Client's Perspective |
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In my career I have been fortunate enough to work for two of the
best companies on earth: Accenture and Microsoft. In my eleven
years at Accenture I got a tremendous education on systems
development, project management, strategic planning, and client
service. In my nine years at Microsoft, I took most of what I
learned at Accenture and learned how to apply it in a very
practical and effective manner. Both experiences were key to my
growth as a professional.
When I left Accenture to go to Microsoft, I found myself moving
from the consultant's side of the desk to the client's side of
the desk. At Microsoft I had the opportunity to work with a
large number of consulting firms in my various j (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lonnie Pacelli |
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| Article Title :: In Search of the "Good Enough" Leader |
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On a recent project my company was working with a frozen seafood
manufacturer to help them bring a specialty frozen seafood
product to market. A huge component of getting this project done
was the packaging; it had to be eye-popping and appealing while
protecting the frozen seafood pieces inside. After a number of
design sessions with the packaging manufacturer, we received the
finished packaging. What was initially exuberance during the
design session turned into disappointment when we saw the
finished product. Some of the graphics were a bit blurry, a
re-sealable zipper wasn't included, and a clear window to view
the contents inside was missing. Our emotions went from
disappointment to an (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lonnie Pacelli |
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| Article Title :: When are you coming home? Five practical tips to realizing
work/life balance. |
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So let's talk about over-used terms for a minute.
If you've been in the business world since the mid 1990s you've
likely heard your management espouse the desire for employees to
achieve greater work/life balance. Many U.S. companies have
adopted programs to help employees strike a better life balance
by providing health club benefits, entertainment discount
programs, and additional time off for events such as the birth
of a child. Despite all this, Americans are of the most
overworked and flat-out busy people on earth, recently
surpassing the Japanese and long surpassing the Europeans. With
all this discussion of work/life balance, how can we in the U.S.
also be of the most overworked pe (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lonnie Pacelli |
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| Article Title :: Am I Meant to Mentor? Five Attributes of Best-in-Class Mentors. |
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As a young consultant I really thought I had it all together. I
was getting great ratings, great raises, and wonderful accolades
from clients. Because I (in my own mind) thought I was such hot
stuff, I was not active in seeking out advice from more
experienced colleagues. After all, what could they teach me?
As I matured from an inexperienced hot-shot to an experienced
manager, I developed a much stronger appreciation for the wisdom
my more experienced colleagues could impart. This appreciation
didn't happen naturally; I had to get my butt chewed off a bunch
of times to realize that a wiser and more experienced colleague
could help me get through the tough times and learn from my
mistakes. (read full article) |
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