Managers, listen up: micromanagement kills your team’s efficiency and will slowly drive you insane. I’ve prepared a simple four-step plan to help you stop micromanaging and thereby preserve your employees’ productivity. [Read more...]
Weekend Reading: Guest Posts 8/27 – 8/31
By 09/2/12
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My guest posts this week included tips on manager-employee relations, project management apps and the atrocious statistics on vacation time in the U.S. [Read more...]
Weekend Reading: Guest Posts 4/27 – 5/2
By 07/22/12
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Each week, I contribute dozens of career articles to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. [Read more...]
Weekend Reading: Guest Posts 7/9 – 7/13
By 07/15/12
Each week, I contribute dozens of management articles to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. [Read more...]
TED Talk Tuesday: Dan Pink on the Surprising Science of Motivation
By 07/10/12
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In this TED talk, Dan Pink gives a persuasive argument that might make you rethink the way managers should motivate. [Read more...]
Weekend Reading: Career Guest Posts 6/25 – 6/29
By 07/1/12
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Each week, I contribute dozens of articles on career-focused topics to a variety of Web properties. Here are some of my favorite posts from this week. [Read more...]
TED Talk Tuesday: Simon Sinek on How Great Leaders Inspire Action
By 06/26/12
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“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money,” says Simon Sinek in this TED Talk. “But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” [Read more...]
5 Tips on Managing and Motivating Millennials
By 06/18/12
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Millennials have often been maligned as being entitled or difficult to manage. Maybe they’re just misunderstood. [Read more...]
5 Business Lessons From the NBA
By 06/4/12
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From the NBA draft to the playoffs, basketball has always been great entertainment, but today’s must-reads illustrate business lessons we can learn from the NBA. [Read more...]
3 Warning Signs a Top Employee is About to Quit
By 05/15/12
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Even managers who focus on culture and motivation are sometimes unable to retain high-performance team members. Here are three warning signs that indicate a top employee is getting ready to quit. [Read more...]
5 Key Insights on Managing the Social Network Generation
By 05/14/12
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Today’s must-reads tackle how Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest have shaped the way leaders manage the so-called social network generation. [Read more...]
Proactive Management Makes Employee Feedback Dead Simple
By 05/10/12
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Matthew Swyers wrote an excellent piece for Inc. today about why ultimatums don’t work in employer-employee relationships, but all I could think about was how proactive management would eliminate the need for an ultimatum in the first place. [Read more...]
How Employee Engagement Leads to Productivity
By 05/9/12
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Many managers read all the talk about employee engagement and think that happy employees will automatically level up their productivity; unfortunately, managing performance isn’t that simple. [Read more...]
Monday Must-Reads: Movie-Inspired Leadership Lessons
By 04/2/12
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You might think that movies are just for entertainment, but today’s must-reads prove that there are plenty of leadership lessons to be learned from famous films. [Read more...]
A French Chef’s Management Mantra for Perfection and Productivity
By 03/21/12
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A French chef I once worked with had a management mantra for perfection and productivity that translates beautifully into a business environment. [Read more...]
