Are you a friend with your team mates?
You don’t have to be a friend with your team mates. It’s a mistake to think that the best teams are all friends who enjoy working together.
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A Few Simple Tips to Help You With Difficult Decisions
Few simple tips to help you with difficult decisions that affects you or your friends, family and colleagues, try these simple techniques.
Are you working for a pigeon?
As a pigeon, many of us, having achieved a result in a certain way, find it difficult to adapt our thinking to consider alternative methods.
How to discuss difficult subjects at work
We live in strange times. There are so many issues that divide us as a society, it’s impossible to avoid them creeping into the workplace.
What if you`re the odd one out at work?
What if you`re the odd one out at work? There are any number of ways you might be different from your workmates.
Solve complex problems like a Pro
Use the 4S method to solve complex problems: State the problem. Don’t guess, drill deeply to identify it. Structure the problem for analysis. Break it down into manageable chunks. Get specialized help where you need it. Solutionise: narrow down potential fixes and test or research them. Don’t rely too much on problems you’ve cracked before. …
If you want to be a good leader, learn to follow.
Retired Army General and US Secretary of State Colin Powell said that leadership is about achieving more than the science of management says is possible. That’s as good a definition as you’ll find anywhere. Conventional wisdom has for decades suggested that great leaders are born and not made, but the latest research has shown that’s …
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Here’s what it takes to be the boss
Most management experts agree that the single most important quality you need to be a successful boss is the ability to give and receive guidance
Sometimes it’s better to follow than to lead.
Everyone wants to be the boss. That’s not strictly true but, as anyone who has ever been appointed to lead a team, a division or a company will know, there are few feelings to compare with sliding your feet under the boss’s chair for the first time, knowing it’s your chair now. Sometimes it’s better to follow …
Do you feel trapped by your job?
Living well is not the secret of happiness Despite the excellent financial rewards, Andrew found it difficult to get excited about trading commodities from a desk and his colleagues often found him absorbed by the websites of leading watch companies. One of his friends said, “You came into banking because it’s where your friends are. …