Posts Tagged ‘managememt’

A Book Review:Winning With People

A John Maxwell book published by Thomas Nelson, 2004, 272 pages, Nonfiction, Business, Leadership and Personal Development.

Yes, I know I just reviewed a John Maxwell book. No, I’m not working for his publicist.

Remember when you were a kid and every time a new Piers Anthony book came out, you just had to read it? Even if the story line and characters weren’t all that great.

Well, Maxwell’s books are becoming… » Continue

December 22 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: book, leadership, managememt, review | 2 comments»

Book Review: Outrageous Guilt-Free Selling, Unforgetable Service

A T. Scott Gross book published by Oakhill Press, 1996, 304 pages. Nonfiction: Business and Personal Growth. The book theme: Sell a customer, get paid once…serve a customer, get paid again and again.

His mantra…

1. Reward high pressure service not high pressure sales.

2. Teach guilt free selling.

3. Be an example of a servant leader.

This book conducts a survey of the strategies the author terms “POS” (Positively Outrageous Selling) and its… » Continue

November 13 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: book, managememt, marketing, review | 2 comments»

Things That Matter Most: Becoming a Great Leader #6

This is the last in a series of articles on becoming a great leader. It is a collection of the staples of great leadership and is compiled from many sources.

Great leaders KNOW it is PEOPLE not PROGRAMS that create a quality organization.
Great leaders have clear, consistent expectations.
Great leaders take into account the impact of their decisions on those they work with.
Great leaders plan a purpose for everything they do.
Great

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September 29 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: Communication, leadership, managememt | no comments»

The Power of Praise: Becoming a Great Leader #5

Effective leaders treat others with a positive regard. Specifically, effective leaders understand the power of appreciation. This goes beyond the Carnegie precepts of “Be hardy in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

Effective praise is a skill set that must be learned like any other. As leaders we often find ourselves spending and inordinate amount of time identifying what is wrong, identifying mistakes, and concentrating on errors. Effective leaders… » Continue

September 26 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: behavior, business, effectiveness, leadership, managememt | 6 comments»

Reining in Rule Breakers: Becoming a Great Leader #3

There is a little rebel in all of us. The question is when an employee breaks the rules what should you do about it?

It is an important question. The decision can have an impact not only on the employee but the whole department in which he works.

Every manager should make it a habit to periodically review company behavior and conduct guidelines.

Here are a few of the problem areas you… » Continue

September 22 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: business, employee, leadership, managememt | 6 comments»

Motivating Others: Becoming a Great Leader #2

In most any professional environment you will encounter those who are feeling the repercussions of long hours and impending deadlines. The pre-burnout conditions can manifest themselves in any of the following behaviors.

Little or no demonstrated interest in the business at hand.
Few outside interests or hobbies.
Statements of apathy.
Limited or no goals for professional or personal growth.
Complaints about required workloads.

One of the most expensive endeavors of doing business is in… » Continue

September 21 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: leadership, managememt, personaldevelopment | 4 comments»

Becoming a Great Leader

A series on becoming a more successful leader.

There’s no doubt about it. Being in a leadership position is a very difficult job. We are required to do so much and to be all things to so many people. The advice we get is often great in theory, but falls short of the mark in practice. We need practical strategies that will help us, and those around us become… » Continue

September 20 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: behavior, business, Communication, effective, expectations, managememt, Management, skills | 13 comments»

Competition Re-visited

The case of Floyd Landis, plus the earlier doping scandals bedeviling the Tour de France, ought to make us all think again about the true impact of competition. Sport (together with warfare) is one of the commonest sources of ideas about business, so when the world of sport seems to be in trouble, it’s worth asking what is going wrong, and whether it might reveal anything relevant to the business… » Continue

August 7 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, competition, high-fliers, leadership, managememt, Management, motivation, office-politics, organization, performance, Productivity, relationships, reputation, success, winners, winning, work, work-life | 1 comment»

“Hamburger Management”

A leader forced to utilize “hamburger management” is like a cordon bleu chef told to work as a short-order cook and produce nothing but hamburgers with french fries every day. Any organization that uses this approach is like a diner who eats nothing else. The first becomes bored, frustrated and disillusioned; the second becomes sick rather quickly.

Hamburger management is any form of leadership or management technique that utilizes only a… » Continue

July 9 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: civilized-work, creativity, decision, leadership, managememt, Management, manager, organization, overwork, performance, prioritization, time, timemanagement, work, work-life, workflow, workstyle | 3 comments»

How Civilized is Your Workplace?

A civilized workplace is one where people have the time and freedom to do their jobs to the best of their ability. No one is bullied or hassled by some boss high on ego and testosterone. Leaders trust their subordinates to do what they’re paid to do; and subordinates trust their leaders to act with their interests in mind as well as the firm’s profits (and the executives’ stock options). » Continue

May 29 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, civilization, civilized-work, commitment, ethics, fun, leadership, lifebalance, managememt, Management, manager, office-politics, organization, performance, prioritization, Productivity, trust, vision, work, work-life | 1 comment»

Bare Bones Project Hacks

Project managers seem to come in two flavors, maybe three. The first flavor are those who follow the PMI guidelines by the book. The second are those who get thrown into project management by way of the “someone had to do it” route. Third would be a hybrid. This addresses those last two types. Let’s talk about some of the basic elements of running a project, and while we’re at it, we will discuss a few methods for running projects that might prove helpful to you. » Continue

May 3 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: hack, managememt, planning, project, tracking | 18 comments»

Getting Too Intense About Work

It’s easy to get intense about your work. But it’s a major step from there to treating your job with such intensity it starts to take over nearly all of your life. Don’t just shrug off burnout as superstition or think you’re immune. It’s a serious issue that can wreck lives and produce problems for other people as well. » Continue

May 1 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: burnout, energy, feeling, health, lifebalance, lifehacks, Lifestyle, managememt, overwork, Productivity, stress, work-life, worrying | 5 comments»

More than 40 Free Open Source Project Management Applications

Talk to an aspiring project manager, or one interviewing at a new company, and one of the first questions is, “Do you use Microsoft Project?” The answer often defines how projects are run at that organization. Project is a great tool, but it is also very complex. It costs a lot. It requires other users to use the same application to view the native file. Whatever your reason, there are… » Continue

April 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: list, managememt, project, software | 1 comment»

10 rules to manage your boss

Boss management - an unusal term but sometimes it is true that you need to give your boss a hand and to be more proactive on managing yourself, and your boss. Jacques Horovitz has 10 rules on how to manage your boss, in order to be more effective, faster in actions and gain trust:

Decisions: If you do not want a ‘no’ or procrastination, give him/her a hand
Manage her time: You

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March 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: managememt | 3 comments»