Bert Webb over Open Loops talks about some ideas to reward your employees. In the organization especially the non-profits, where you do not have full control on salary, how do you reward your employees for the extra efforts? Bert mentions it is not only monetary incentives that you can do to recognize ones performance and…

Conversation is becoming a lost art, replaced by endless talk. To converse is to share ideas and learn from one another in the process. It demands listening and talking in equal degrees. Talk is one-way.

Slashdot recently has published a question from a reader on the best way to manage geek. The reader has read a 1999 article on this topic and wonder if the new millenium has ever changed. There are couple of good response from geek themselves which should be a good trigger of thoughts. For…

Managing Information is a usual challenge for many businesses and organizations. The more information and people, the harder and more complex on information management projects and initiatives. Information system is not the only component that needs to address. James Robertson has written an article on 10 principles to ensure that information management are effective: recognise (and…

Before you decide the Pareto Principle is true and can be used to guide your actions, I want to ask two important questions. Can you identify which actions make up the useful 20%? And can you do so in advance? And does this useful 20% always contain more or less the same actions?

Speed is everywhere. Fast cars, high-speed Internet connections, fast food, quickie divorces, “The One-Minute Manager.” Is faster always better? I doubt it, especially when you’re dealing with people. We may want to get our burger quickly, but who wants only a few moments of someone’s attention?

For a business, knowledge is the asset of intellectual capital. Professional relationships outside a company but in related firms and fields, is the asset of network capital. Both of these assets are very easily invested in every single day without most firms realizing it, and because they don’t realize it, they don’t capitalize…

Buzzwords block our ability to think and communicate clearly, so people are left confused and frustrated. The buzzword “motivation” is a prime example. Though it sounds precise, it has that typical characteristic of all buzzwords: a vague cluster of meanings lumped within a single word.

Management covers a lot of ground. Managing with Aloha covers nineteen universal business values, and thus that number, nineteen, is just the beginning when it comes to the different topics people will ask me to speak on. Still, preferences fall along certain lines at any given time, and there are runaway winners when it comes…

In my career, I’ve experienced times when disloyalty was disruptive and killed any sense of trust. But I’ve also seen cases where too much unquestioning loyalty meant important issues were suppressed until it was too late. It’s made me wonder if open questioning of authority, short of defiance, may be essential if we’re not to lose our way.

There is a post recently which Jory Des Jardins talks about her stories and experiences on bad bosses. How bosses behave is directly affecting employees productivity and behaviour. Those bad bosses probably have no sympathy towards people feeling and does not treat employees as the most important capital in the company. They probably don’t want…

Related to the last post, I found out Jeffrey Phillips has similar brainstorming post on document organization. He said: ‘But while we are generating all these documents, we very rarely consider how they will be stored, recalled and/or reused.’ – Very true, or we are not consider how we store our document because sorting needs…

Aloha, let’s manage with aloha: Work well, live well. I’m hearing the B word a lot these days: BUDGET. In my coaching I find that this is the time when all my clients are focusing on goals and objectives for the coming year. The thing is that they are focusing on it only because they have…

What do you think when is the best time to move on and start looking for another job? Lisa Haneberg over Management Craft has an article on the same topic. She suggested there are five signals when need to move on: You do not feel like you are growing. You do not see that this will change in…

Over Slacker Manager, Brendon talks about how to fast tracking your career by yourself. Your organization may not have any fast track programs, nor you may not be eligible to it – but you can still do it yourself. He mentions there are four key factors for fast tracking: The right work in the right…