the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
Despite racking up impressive accomplishments, you feel frustrated with your career--convinced you should be achieving more. You may even wish you had chosen a different career altogether. These feelings often stem from a common error:...
Why some people are able to find positions that bring out the best in them, while others, who are equally talented, get left behind in positions that do not allow them to flourish? According to Gallup research, only twenty percent of the workforces are in jobs that provide them the...
Getfeedback formed a strategic partnership with a leading technology organisation to help leverage existing talent and focus on high levels of customer satisfaction. Getfeedback needed to get immediate results. Integrated development programs were the next step, to engage employees in the change and to start the transformation process. Getfeedback developed...
An individual will have worked his or her way up to management through a combination of drive, determination, and a lot of hard work. Congratulations. But the person will not just want to stop there. Chances are that the person would like to keep learning and developing his or her...
Speaking is the single most important factor in everyone's career. You may have all the potential in the world to become a leader in your field. Perhaps your career feels stalled by forces that seem beyond your control. Or perhaps you managed to skyrocket through the ranks of your organization...
The newest trend in cosmetic surgery, apparently, is nipping and tucking for your job. Not content to Botox their brows into submission merely for personal primping, workplace go-getters men as well as women are turning to appearance enhancement for career advancement. No lesser an authority than His...
Senior management redundancies have hit a seven-year high in Britain, according to the 2008 National Management Survey, published by the Chartered Management Institute and CELRE. Most likely for the chop are East Anglian execs (also the most loyal to employers, sadly), while lucky Eire employees are safest in their...
Leadership is a complex subject. We should all consider ourselves leaders, particularly those of us looking to progress our careers beyond the current nine to five days we love or endure. Whatever our occupation, admin staff to managers, refuse collectors to chefs, we have a duty to behave in a...
Headman Bernardo Provenzano may be in jail, but he reversed the Mafia's failing fortunes and revitalized their image during the decade he was in power using a system that's detailed in a new book by John Murray. An article in The Guardian details his seven-point plan towards doing business, mafia...
Finding time is a challenge even in the best situations. What happens when your coworkers approach time completely differently than you do? Punctuality, planning and procrastination conflicts can undermine projects if they are not addressed. However, you can learn how to utilize this to everyone's mutual benefit. Approaching conflicting outlooks...
My previous post "Seven Rules for Keeping Motivated" has turned out to be one the most popular I've ever posted. So I'm going to share a little more of the wisdom of Omar Periu, one of the world's best known motivational speakers. According...
Two interesting views on the career suicide of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Writing in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School professor Bill George fits Spitzer into a failed leadership type he terms "rationalizer." I believe Spitzer's profile closely fits the rationalizer, one who gets so caught...
Age gaps between CEOs and employees explain some performance ratings. The lukewarm evaluations of CEOs also may point to a generation gap between typically baby boomer-era upper management and Gen X- and Gen Y-age employees and managers. Several experts pointed out that...
Jason Meugniot, owner and CEO of Guidance Solutions, Inc., employs the practice of his company's core values in every aspect of his career. Meugniot discusses his company's forward-thinking innovation program and how he maintains long-term relationships with his clients.
If you truly want to achieve the goals you set for yourself, you have to have the right attitude. Often it is actually our own minds that can be our worst enemy, directing us to repeat the same old habits over and over again. If you have been experiencing difficulty...
Don't believe the hype. These “classic” books attract all the attention, but for real business wisdom, read our preferred suggestions instead. Management Consulting...
In today's business world, the line between what's best and what's right, what's ethical and what's lucrative, is often blurred. This blog lives on that line. Everything you need to survive in today's business world you probably learned in the schoolyard. How to choose your fights; when...
Many of us "mature" managers remember being told at the beginning of our work careers that the quickest way to the top was by being "seen and not heard." Seen but not heard does not cut it in today's workplace. Organizations need vital contributions from every employee,...
Many people learn instinctively the importance of managing up -- that is, keeping your boss in the loop, in your corner, and under control. More difficult and subtle is the art and science of managing peers, subordinates, different generations, geniuses, and jerks. To varying degrees, all have...
It could be argued that society is moving backwards; that as adults, we’re becoming more child-like—demanding instant and varied pleasures to make us happy instead of developing the maturity to delay gratification. But really, what’s wrong with that? We have the technological innovations and resources to support our immediate desires...
