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How to sell an idea
Got an idea that could kick your career into overdrive?
Tags: selling, entrepreneur, managing up, new ideas, Sales
Articles 2007-02-01
Wisdom of the Pros
Six experts who sell ideas for a living explain the secrets of their success.
Tags: Business, compensation, financial, interest rate, liquidity, modeling, strategy, Credit, equity
Articles 2007-02-01
How to Get Started with Getting Things Done
David Allen's Getting Things Done time-management system is based on some pretty esoteric concepts ("knowledge work," "distributed cognition," the "ready state" of martial arts, and so on), but in actual practice it's cheap and very much do-it-yourself.
Tags: David Allen, time management, organization, career, productivity
Articles 2007-02-01
What Is Crowdsourcing?
Despite the jargony name, crowdsouring is a very real and important business idea.
Tags: crowdsourcing, open sourcing, collective wisdom, mass collaboration
Articles 2007-02-01
Top-Down Productivity
Three senior managers use David Allen's personal-productivity system to get the most out of their teams.
Tags: David Allen, productivity, career, worklife, Getting Things Done
Articles 2007-02-01
Building a Cross-functional Team
Most projects require a wide variety of skills to complete the work involved, so if you're managing a project of any type, it's likely that you'll have to work with a group of people from different backgrounds.
Tags: Skills, Teams, Cross-functional, Project Management, Goals
Articles 2007-02-01
Calculating Activity Based Costing
Activity based costing ABC attempts to create the big picture-crystal-clear, full, and accurate-by painting assorted little pictures.
Tags: Business
Articles 2007-02-01
Building Self-Confidence
For those who have it, there is nothing special about self-confidence. If you don't have it, however, it can be a big challenge to create and keep a sense of self-worth.
Tags: Self Confidence
Articles 2007-02-01
Coping in Difficult Negotiations
However experienced you are at handling negotiations, you'll occasionally run into difficulties.
Tags: negotiation, tactics, sales, strategy
Articles 2007-02-01
Getting the Raise You Deserve
You feel certain that you deserve a raise, but you're unsure about how to ask your boss.
Tags: Business
Articles 2007-02-01
Dealing with a Difficult Boss
Do you have a difficult or challenging relationship with your boss? You are not alone. Of all the less-than-perfect interactions you may have at work, this will probably be the trickiest and most stressful because of the inherent political dynamic of your relationship.
Tags: boss, business
Articles 2007-02-01
Giving and Receiving Feedback Well
When the thought of having to give or receive feedback arises, most people assume that the experience will be a negative and uncomfortable one.
Tags: Business
Articles 2007-02-01
Identifying and Managing Talent
For the purposes of this actionlist, talent is defined as a dormant or untapped quality to be accessed in the future, either in an individual employee or the collective body of employees.
Tags: Business
Articles 2007-02-01
Negotiating a Better Package When You Start Work
When you start a new job, you have a unique opportunity to position yourself as a valuable asset in the organization and to set your level of compensation accordingly.
Tags: Business
Articles 2007-02-01
Coordinating a Volunteer Workforce
Volunteers are an important part of the business culture. Organizations can leverage volunteers in many ways to help them meet institutional goals.
Tags: volunteers, coordination, management, nonprofit, workforce
Articles 2007-02-01
Delivering Knock-out Presentations
A presentation is an ideal environment in which to promote yourself, your business, or your ideas.
Tags: presentations, Business
Articles 2007-02-01
Developing Assertiveness
Do people get the better of you at work, so that you end up doing the tasks no one wants to do?
Tags: assertiveness training, communication, confidence, career development
Articles 2007-02-01
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