Posts Tagged ‘Management’

What does it take to be “green” in the workplace?

Recycling and energy-efficient lighting don’t even begin to do it for me. They only touch on a few of the physical areas of impact our organizations have on the planet and the creatures that live on it. I’m not saying they don’t count at all, just that they don’t count for much in the great scheme of things: massaging symptoms rather than tackling causes.

What I believe it takes to… » Continue

April 10 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: environment, green, Management, Resource, respect | 2 comments»

Welcome Failure

Very often the best way to test an idea is not to analyze it but to try it. The organization that implements lots of ideas will most likely have many failures but the chances are, it will reap some mighty successes too. By trying numerous initiatives we improve our chances that one of them will be a star. As Tom Kelley of IDEO puts it… » Continue

March 27 2008 | By Paul | Tagged: creativity, failure, imagination, leadership, Management, problem-solving, success, thinking | 10 comments»

Go on a High-Information Diet

Everywhere you turn these days people are complaining about too much information. The phrase “information overload” gets more than 1.5 million hits on Google. (This post makes it one more!) Everyone seems to think that if they could just reduce the flow of information into their lives, everything would be all better. They could finally relax and take a minute to catch up.

My advice is the opposite: you don’t… » Continue

March 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: email, information, input, Management, rss | 24 comments»

How to Create Connection in the Workplace: A Review of “Fired up or Burned Out” by Michael Lee Stallard

How do business leaders create a sense of connection and shared passion in their organizations? How can you make your employees (and by extension you r company) more productive and more innovative — instead of struggling to maintain the status quo?

These are the questions that Michael Lee Stallard sets out to answer in his book Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity, and

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February 15 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, connection, corporation, leadership, Management, relationships | 12 comments»

Dealing with Information Overload

In a world full of information we seem to be constantly toggling between managing all the new impressions we get on a daily basis and feeling totally overwhelmed by information overload. With the arrival of the Internet we were told that things would become easier - less paper clutter to worry about and more time to enjoy life.

But this isn’t so, as we’ve all found out in recent years… » Continue

January 31 2008 | By Monika | Tagged: information, Management, mind, organization, Productivity | 15 comments»

7 Habits To Win In Office Politics

Office politics - a taboo word for some people. It’s a pervasive thing at the workplace. In it’s simplest form, office politics is simply about the differences between people at work; differences in opinions, conflicts of interests are often manifested as office politics. It all goes down to human communications and relationships.

There is no need to be afraid of office politics. Top performers are those who have mastered the… » Continue

January 24 2008 | By Lawrence | Tagged: career, conflict_resolution, Management, office_politics | 13 comments»

Do You Make This Mistake as a Professional?

Broken promises are one of the biggest mistakes that one can make in their career. Broken promises are a problem because:

Broken promises diminish the value of your word. People want to count on you when you’ll say you do something. If you regularly drop the ball people will rely on you less. Your reputation becomes one of a partial contributor and you will not be offered opportunities.
Broken promises decrease

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December 20 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: Management, mistake, promise, work | 8 comments»

11 Tips for Nuking Laziness Without Becoming a Workaholic

Rest is important for productivity. Trying to work straight without recovering your energies leads to a wandering attention, procrastination and, in extreme cases, death. But when does “recovering your energies” just become an excuse to waste time? How do you draw the line between constructive rest and laziness?

I don’t believe this question has an easy answer. The most productive people I know have a… » Continue

December 11 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: energy, lazy, Management, procrastination, Productivity, recovery, rest, time | 29 comments»

The Top 4 Misapplications of the 80/20 Rule

Eighty percent of the output comes from twenty percent of the input. That is basically a summary of the Pareto Principle, or as it is more commonly known, the 80/20 Rule. The rule comes from Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who noticed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was in the hands of 20% of the population.

The 80/20 Rule points out the imbalance of effects. Just as… » Continue

December 6 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 80/20, 80/20-rule, effective, efficient, energy, Lifehack, Management, pareto, Productivity, time | 28 comments»

15 Tips to Make Today the Day You Finish Your To-Do List

You’ve seen it before. Every checkmark only leaves two more unfinished tasks. Your to-do list has become an living organism, spawning more and more work while leaving you less and less time to finish. Is it possible to stop your to-do list, or will it just become an unstoppable blob of extra work?

Your best weapon against the rising tide of to-do is dedicating a day

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November 13 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: Management, organization, time, todo | 30 comments»

How to Go Paperless: Bury the Paper Before it Buries You

The paperless office concept has been around since the 1960s or ‘70s, much like the flying car. For many people, this has been little more then a myth. How can we get rid of the paper while our offices are filled with photocopiers and fax machines and the postal carriers and couriers keep bringing in reams of the stuff daily? What about the need to keep receipts for accounting… » Continue

November 8 2007 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: environment, Management, paperless | 19 comments»

16 Tips to Survive Brutal Criticism (and Ask for More)

“You suck.”

Everyone encounters criticism, whether it is a boss pointing out falling performance, a bad review for your book, or even self-criticism after an embarrassing slip-up. Your ability to digest that criticism and make use of it says a lot about your character. Even better is to be the kind of person who can take a sharp, verbal critique, stand up and ask for more.

People are Too… » Continue

October 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: advice, Communication, criticism, evaluation, feedback, improvement, Management, suggestions | 12 comments»

Management and militarism: Just who are we fighting?

Two of the greatest influences on management thinking and practice have been the militaristic politics of the Roman Empire (via the Roman Catholic Church—a masterpiece of top-down, centralized, hierarchical control) and the world’s armies.

Look at the words we use: “command and control,” “stuck in the trenches,” “didn’t have the firepower.” We “attack the issues head-on.” When people oppose us they “shoot down our ideas” or “get us from behind,”… » Continue

October 22 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, Communication, Management, workplace | 11 comments»

Why Your Plans Fail

Business plans, diet plans, plans to get a degree and your plan to get rich. Life is full of planning. You’d think that all your practice planning would make you at least somewhat good at it. Then why do so few things go “according to plan?”

Your business can’t make money the way you intended. You quit your diet on day three and start eating the chocolate… » Continue

October 9 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: future, Management, plan, planning, prediction, Productivity, project, rational, time | 30 comments»

Withstanding Personal Attack in the Workplace

It’s been said that a man who stands on principle is bound to face personal attack. In my line of work, school administration, this has certainly been true as attacks can come literally from out of the blue. A longtime colleague can take you on, seemingly out of the blue with a laundry list of complaints. The next day, an attack might come from a parent… » Continue

September 25 2007 | By Mike | Tagged: attack, Communication, Management, stress, workplace | 7 comments»

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