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- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So Bad
- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So BadA control freak makes group dynamics weak!Great story, and many people are 'light' control freaks! Unfortunately I can not support the opinion to cheer for'em...Conrol freaks with too high ambitions, are highly destructive for a team and its dynamics, due to their manipulative...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Group Dynamics: Learning to Work With Control Freaks
- Group Dynamics: Learning to Work With Control FreaksDealing with Control FreaksI'm not an industrial psychologist, but I have some experience working with control freaks. Most of the time, your personal success will come in using your negotiating skills. Most control freaks don't really want to incorporate your ideas, but if...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-16
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- Group Dynamics: Learning to Work With Control Freaks
- A few months ago, I wrote a post about one of the major components of our MBA program -- "group learning." Many of our classes include a group project or group homework. At the time, I was highly optimistic about my team's group dynamics. We all have...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Sales managers...and other control freaks.
- A few posts ago, I lambasted technology that wastes more time than it saves. I was expecting a chorus of agreement from sales reps, but what I got were grumblings from sales managers who simply adore CRM... because it lets them spy on their employees.Of course, it's that "Big...
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- NFL.com 2009: When Control Freaks Meet Twitter
- Twitter is tough for control freaks. Sure, you get to send your own message and skip the middle men—usually the media— but once it’s out there, you have no say about who picks it up, how they re-frame it to share if they share it at all or what...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Sales managers...and other control freaks.
- Sales managers...and other control freaks.AgreedI very much agree with what was said. Managers should trust their staff. If you respect your staff and provide them a way to become their own leader then you foster respect in both directions. Of course, sometimes back management is equal to...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-14
- Control Freaks. (Correspondence).
- THE PROSPECT IS KNOWN for high-quality journalism. So it's a shame that before letting loose with falsehoods and half-truths about Americans for Gun Safety AGS, Nicholas Confessore didn't check with us ["Control Freaks," April 8, 2002]. Our "plush new offices" are just a few feet from...
- Research articles 2002-07-15
- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So Bad
- The Find: The term control freak isn't usually considered a compliment, but one executive coach feels that the tendency to crave control actually offers significant advantages in business. The Source: Cheryl Cran writing on the Brazen Careerist blog. The Takeaway:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Control at Core of Apple and Jobs' Health
- Control at Core of Apple and Jobs' HealthThe entrepenuers malaiseJobs is suffering from the same malaise that most successful entrepreneurs seem to suffer to some degree or other; control freaks.Shepherding his lambs through to the lush meadows, all the while knowing the wolves want to eat up his favourite little...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-29
- It's SightSound vs. the control freaks. (Internet Video).(Brief Article)
- WASHINGTON--Flush with a preliminary victory in its patent infringement case against Bertelsmann Entertainment, SightSound Technologies president and CEO Scott Sander accused movie and music companies of disregarding SightSound's claims on the technology for selling downloads via the Internet in an effort to control the digital ...
- Research articles 2002-03-25
- Chaos in Iraq: All we hear is the "not-me, guv" defence from
- TONY Blair, Geoff Hoon, Jack Straw - they're the control freaks, remember? The men who never left anything to chance; who built their reputation on controlling not just Westminster and Whitehall, but Parliament, the media and public opinion as well. They're the men who...
- Research articles 2004-05-16
- Getting started.(Letter to the editor)
- I just read the July Control Freaks column on getting started in controls ("Getting Started in Comfort Control"). It did not mention ASHRAE's "Fundamentals of HVAC Control Systems," a self-directed learning course. It is a bit dated, but still popular. Another...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- X-Rite and Pantone Release a New Seminar for Color Freaks
- Color Seminar for Those Who Take Color Seriously GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) - Pantone and the color experts at X-Rite Color Services today announced the 2008 release of the company's highly popular seminar "Color Control Freak". With a completely revised curriculum, Color Control Freak 08 offers...
- Research articles 2008-01-15
- Perfectionists Despair: Digital World "Always in Beta"
- Today we mentioned that Craigslist CEO, Jim Buckmaster, will be answering questions on the always engaging Freakonomics blog. One of the principles of his management philosophy: Put speed over perfection: “Get something out there. Do it, even if it isn’t perfect.†Buckmaster is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Effective Delegating
- Delegation - one of the critical determining factors for everyone who wants to be an effective leader or manager. And for those people control freaks, lack of delegating skill can be a real show stopper. Because the harder a person tries to hold on to things, the faster they can...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Attention, control freaks: take time out to daydream. (Small Business)
- Harriet Donnelly religiously carts her NCR Safari 3170 notebook computer, SkyWord alphanumeric pager and AT&T cellular phone with her on business trips. After a day of meetings, she told Fortune (in "The Wired Executive"), "The firstHarriet Donnelly religiously carts her NCR Safari 3170 notebook computer, SkyWord...
- Research articles 1994-02-14
- Interfacing building HVAC controls and life-safety systems after 9/11: tragedies place premium on emergency preparedness. (Control Freaks).(heating, ventilation, air conditioning, World Trade Center attack)
- The tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, raised public awareness of the potential of unforeseen emergency events to levels never before seen. As a result, building structures and systems are being reviewed for weaknesses and deficiencies that would impair th The tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, raised...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- Twisted arsonists are control freaks.
- Byline: Sam Riches Jan 04, 2007 (The Advertiser - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The motives of arsonists have been detailed by University of South Australia psychology clinic director, Stuart Byrne. Byrne said arsonists can be excited by being responsible for a fire and...
- Research articles 2007-01-04
- BUF TECHNOLOGY: The FORCE(TM) behind the NFL's In Instant Replay Challenge.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 August 1999-BUF TECHNOLOGY: The FORCETM behind the NFL's Instant Replay Challenge C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:020899 * BUF Technology Hardware Controller Used Exclusively in Leitch System San Diego, CA -- BUF Technology, the "control freaks" of ...
- Research articles 1999-08-02
- Arms Control Freaks - Clinton administration and ballistic missile defenses
- The administration likes negotiations better than it does defense. Since taking office in 1993, the Clinton administration has undertaken a systematic program that must be described as anti-anti-missile defense. Despite promising to build defenses against short-range missile attacks as soon as possible, President Clinton and his senior national-security officials...
- Research articles 1999-02-22
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