We know it’s important to give positive feedback in response to a job well done. Simple recognition of effort can be a fantastic reward that provides continued motivation for future tasks. But sometimes it seems to get tedious to keep …
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Lessons on Ambition from Real-Life “Mad Men” Adman, Kevin Allen In a wood-paneled, authentically British office in central London, I had the privilege of meeting Kevin Allen, one of the original advertising “Mad Men.” Kevin led massive global teams during …
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Corporate culture is becoming increasingly important in the war for talent and retention at companies of all types around the world. Corporate culture is the personality of a company and it can’t be faked. Through social networks, review sites and …
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Co-workers are like family. Most of the time, you don’t get to choose them and there will inevitably be people around with whom you naturally clash. However, at work, how well you relate with others and whether your co-workers like …
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Just when I thought I’d read everything about Millennials (employees born after 1980), along comes Claire Lacroix-Bouchardie from Mercer New York. She wrote a white paper about how flighty Millennials in the workforce bear a striking resemblance to honey bees …
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In their famous book, Getting to Yes, Roger Fisher and William Ury provided a negotiation strategy that has become standard for coming to mutually acceptable agreements in personal and professional conflicts. The model is based on five propositions, including: “Separate …
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Change is essential and inevitable for all organizations, but some people are better at coping with it than others. Dana Brownlee is the founder of Professionalism Matters, a national corporate consulting company that trains groups to boost team productivity in …
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