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Make Your Business a Happiness Generator

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When was the last time you said to yourself: “I am so happy I went into business”? What’s that? You can’t remember? Why, then, are you in business in the first place? In fact, do you remember why you even own a business? Can you remember those feelings of joy, freedom, and self-fulfillment when you first started? Read the rest of this entry »

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Managing Culture is Managing Language

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Understanding culture is understanding language. Now this is a very difficult task as language is so broad and diverse. Yet in companies the language is nailed down to the business (language) and the organization of this business in several domains. Each domain has its own expertise and therefore also its own culture. So there is: Read the rest of this entry »

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Empowered Leadership

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It seems that every decade or so there is some new fad the runs through the business world in terms of supervision and in the world of diversity management, downsizing, outsourcing, generational work conflicts and the information age, things are even more complicated than ever before. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Leader Within - Passion, With Compassion

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Passion, with compassion, is an attainable goal, yet a concentrated effort of trait development. Do you have what it takes? Do you have the influence and network to get you there? If so, why is it taking so long? Well, the answers may lie in the concept that you need to get over yourself, and into others. Get into their hearts, not their minds. Read the rest of this entry »

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Miss Brown Offers Some More Advice

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Miss Brown is a Chocolate Labrador Retriever with an ego. “Not to brag,” she says, “but I’m unusually smart.” That’s why she runs her own business, and that’s why she has some strong ideas about leadership. She solves her problems with 13 common sense principles - and she believes these principles will help leaders solve the problems they face, too. Read the rest of this entry »

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Harming Your Career and Others Through Poor Leadership and What to Do About It

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“Nothing can work more damage except myself; the harm I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.” St. Bernard wrote those words a very long time ago, yet they still say as much now as they did then in regards to Leadership. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 3 Leadership Challenges and What to Do About Them

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Leadership involves a lot of preparation. It seems we are always getting ready for change, getting ready to do something, getting ready to end something or just getting ready. For what, we do not know. Read the rest of this entry »

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Leadership - The 5 Worst Traits of Poor Leaders

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As a leader you are tasked with delivering results. The best leaders know that consistently delivering great results is not something that they can do in isolation. To get others to support them in consistently delivering results they need to avoid the 5 worst traits of poor leaders. In my experience these include: Read the rest of this entry »

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A 7 Step System For Rectifying Poor Employee Performance

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1 Look at Clarity of Expectations

Does the employee know exactly what you expect. Before you answer “of course”, ask yourself this question: “When was the last time I sat down with this employee and explained, in depth, exactly the results I expected and exactly what role I expected the employee to play in achieving these results?” Incidentally, “He already knows that” isn’t an acceptable answer. Read the rest of this entry »

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Execs & Managers - No Excuses! Get Results! - Turn Employee Excuses Into Results Every Time

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No Excuses allowed. Get results when you refuse to accept excuses.

I’m not saying just play hard ball, nor do we slap hands when people come in with an excuse. It’s just that when there is an excuse we are looking at the wrong end of the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

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