Managers have a surprisingly large number of deeply held beliefs that are sometimes just plain wrong. Here are 10 of the most common. 1. Myth: If you want to know what your employees really think, give them an anonymous survey. …
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“He just looks more Presidential.” It’s a statement I came across about one of the candidates while watching the debates. Regardless of which candidate this statement was about, it’s an interesting metric. It doesn’t focus specifically on their agenda, experience, or even …
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In the past few years, companies have been trying to manage employees who are building their own personal brands online through social media. They are exploring ways to best leverage their employees to recruit, sell more and generate more brand …
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Humble. Decent. Accessible. Are these words your employees would use to describe you? Those are terms often used to describe business tycoon Warren Buffet, the man who still lives in the Omaha, Neb. house he bought in 1958 for $31,500 …
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Each of our workplace experts has weighed in on the following question from a reader to give you four points of view. For other editions of our 360° Answers series, please click here. Here’s the question, with our experts’ responses …
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Firing a staff member is one of the hardest parts of a manager’s job. But it’s also one of the most important, because having the right people – and only the right people – on your team will make a …
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Emotions occur spontaneously and produce real changes in our body. By definition, an emotion is “a conscious mental reaction subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the …
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