Thoughts of love are in the air around Valentine’s Day, but Cupid’s arrow may be absent from many workplaces this year as employees feel anything but gaga over their jobs or employers. Overloaded and overstressed from the economic downturn, many …
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At holiday time, every manager wonders how to motivate employees to continue to do their best work. As a sign of appreciation, bonuses, bottles of wine, or other perks might be given out. But do these gestures truly make people …
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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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Joel Garfinkle is an executive coach and author of Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level. Recently, I asked him some questions about some common problems faced by managers, and how best to deal with …
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