Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Have you ever taken your car to a mechanic and found the mechanic to be in a horrible mood? Did you feel uncomfortable driving your car later, worried that he was too unhappy to do his job well?
Just as you don’t want a car fixed by a disgruntled mechanic, your ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Everyone out there in the business world is overly familiar with meetings. You probably have several per week, if not several per day. We hold meetings, in theory, to communicate and to make decisions as a group. I’m here to tell you that that’s often nonsense.
The fact is, most successful ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Here’s a trick to maintaining a strong strategy and direction for your project. Before holding major meetings, meet informally with the key decision makers involved in decisions to be made at the coming meeting. Discuss all key issues to come up at the meeting, make the preliminary decisions for each ...
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