Category: Leadership

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There’s a lot of talk about self-discovery, self-help, and self-development these days. This is especially true in the business world. It seems that you can’t walk into any book store or read any blog about there being an element of self-improvement advice right in front of you. The trouble with all of this advice, however, […]


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Listening with empathy is held up as the acme of great leadership. The best leaders have inspiring visions, are effective communicators and possess what may seem like boundless energy; but above all they know what it means to listen. Listening is a lost art; and it is an art. It requires creative thinking. You can’t […]


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Does your organization rely on teamwork? Are all of your teams functioning the way that you would like them to? Do you think that there’s room for improvement? Given the amount of interest in team effectiveness, it’s reasonable to assume that you would like some tips on how to improve yours. That’s nothing to be […]


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Probably the greatest challenge that scholars face in organizational behavior is getting access to information about what people do when they’re at work. Without it, they have nothing to analyze, evaluate, talk about, or publish. And if they can’t publish, then they’ll perish, because as far as universities are concerned they’ll have little, if anything, […]


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Twenty years ago, Pearn Kandola – an Oxford-based business psychology firm – conducted a study in which they looked at the claims that companies made about the kind of people that they wanted to recruit. One thing they discovered was that managers tended to weed out the people who exhibited the very characteristics they said […]


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Great project managers aren’t born, but it does take a certain sort as the saying goes. There will always be a balance between a project manager’s instinct and experience and the adherence to a flexible yet predefined project management methodology. All good project managers will possess a combination of acquired experience, a recognized qualification in […]


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The business of business has always been to provide products and services to customers. Throughout the ages, plans have been made, resources organized, people recruited (or conscripted), and everything coordinated together so that as near as possible the desired outcome was realized. Of all these elements, however, there is one on which the success or […]



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