Aloha, let’s manage with aloha: Work well, live well. This is a short and sweet post folks, but it’s important. You should consider your credibility and your reputation with keeping your word to be one of the defining hallmarks of your character. However life happens. There will be times when you’ve fallen short of delivering on a…

Good pay is not the only factor of the best job. People start to realize having a job which able you to balance on work-life maybe the best job offer. To help people realize this, some top B-schools have started to open some courses to help people on juggling their responsibilities among their work and…

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…

iSixSigma introduced a good method on finding the root cause of a problem by using 5 why. By repeatedly asking the question “Why” on an issue, you can dig into the root of the cause of a problem. Another good benefit of using this method is that you can determine the relationship between different root…

Digging through articles on networking – Keith Ferrazzi, CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, has given 10 rules of networking. The article is pretty insightful and fun to read. Networking is one of the hard skill to master for business world. However once it is mastered, you can go through personal connections to get useful information and…

Aloha, let’s manage with aloha: Work well, live well. Last week we talked about what employees need to learn from their managers. What can managers learn from employees? Virtually everything they need to know about the things which affect the productivity of the business they manage. Whether you are the employee or the manager, I’d…

In an article called The Smaller the Better, Jeffrey Phillips talks about a good topic on employer/employee relationship on big vs small team. He argues that smaller team has the lean and mean effects on projects: 1. Focus – a manager can spend more time with each person on a smaller team as necessary. 2…

Aloha Readers of Lifehack.org! Leon has graciously invited me to be a guest author here, and I am most appreciative of this wonderful opportunity to share the ideas which add richness yet more simplicity to our lives. As a management coach, and the author Managing with Aloha, you’ll find that what I’ll most often offer…

Lisa over Management Craft has written an experience from her on comparing multi-tasking vs focusing. Should you be doing tasks or projects concurrently, or you should leave a bigger chunk of time for you to do one project only (focusing). She found out focusing (she calls it chunking) is more effective: … I am straddling…

Manager Tools has made a great PDF called Effective Meetings Outline. It is a slide show that shows you steps and tips on running an effective meetings. Topics include: Pre-publish an agenda, start on-time, set some ground rules, stick to your agenda, use a parking lot, fix responsibilities, finish on-time, publish minutes, continuously improve, and…

Rands in Repose has an article called Taking Time to Think. It talks about thinking needs time and rooms. If you are busy, you won’t be able to think. When you are busy or you are resolving problems in the urgent environment, Rands classified this as reacting, not thinking. Rands gives some examples on software…

Eileen Shapiro, the co-author of Make Your Own Luck : 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business, has written a ChangThis Manifesto called Bet This! A Gambler’s Guide to Leadership. She believes that betting is a part of everyday life. She believes leadership is the ability to bet well on action to…

Dr. Leon Winer, Ph.D. in MBA, has made a web site that decaicated to instructions for developing business skills. There are chapters in the site like Case Study Analysis, Creative Decision Analysis, Influencing, Negotiating, Networking, Career Development, Business Plan Outline and Entrepreneuring. I have read through a chapter called Networking / Self-Marketing and…