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“Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do: manage others the way you would like to be managed.”
Brian Tracy. Get more management wisdom at Thinking Managers
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Why we only listen to what we want to hear02 Jul 2009
It's probably something all of us who have tried to get a message across will know from bitter experience. Researchers have proved that people only listen to what they want to hear and filter out the rest.
Dealing with a backstabber
Harry has landed his dream job. But his task of implementing change is being undermined by an aggressive, back-stabbing colleague who seems determined to resist all of Harry's initiatives and who even their mutual boss is unable to control. What can he do?
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Engage people by showing how their work contributes
One of the secrets to creating passionate, engaged employees and to
motivate teams to top performance is actually very simple. Engage people's desire to contribute by showing them how their work is part of the bigger picture.
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How business can regain legitimacy
This recession has felt so bloody partly because our leaders have had to dismantle a business model focused on growth and adjust to a world of greater responsibility and state intervention. But without a new culture of transparency, business will struggle to regain its legitimacy.
A new take on technology: Oswaldo Lorenzo
Technology is a means to better performance but, too often, laments IE Business School's Professor Oswaldo Lorenzo, it is regarded as the ends rather than means. Instead, he tells us, organisations need to look to the future rather than becoming fixated on the present.
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The Truth about InnovationWhat is innovation? How does it happen? How can businesses encourage innovation? Is it possible to create a culture of
innovation? How do you move from an idea to an insight to an
innovation? Max McKeown's new book tells all.
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