Organizational Climate Surveys
by Merrick Rosenberg, MBA
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up right where you are. And, if you don’t know where you are, then where does that leave you? While managers may have a strong sense of their organization’s strategic direction...
Basics in Internal Organizational Communications
by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD
Most experts on organizations, management and
leadership assert that effective communications is the foundation for effectiveness in any type of organization. They assert there can't be too much communication. Some leaders misinterpret communications to be the same as...
Do You Make These 10 Management Mistakes?
by Chris Anderson
As a busy executive, you face some extremely difficult challenges like creating and dominating new markets or finding and keeping the best people. But then, like many executives, do you find yourself spending too much time solving everyday problems (that only you can solve, right?), which prevent you from...
All disappointment
is a result of our expectations not being met. A recent study found that almost one-third of employees surveyed expect to leave their current organization within the year. While turnover can't be stopped, it can be reduced. In many cases, people leave their organizations because...
Jim Collins begins this book with a startling and counterintuitive claim: "Good is the enemy of great." We've become so conditioned to think of performance as something that develops along evolutionary lines -- from poor to good to outstanding -- that it takes a minute to grasp the notion that competence can actually...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that U.S. companies lose $3 billion a year to the effects of negative attitudes and behaviors at work.
Words of Wisdom:
"Spending time and energy trying to “motivate” people is a waste of time. The real question is not, “How do we motivate our people?” If you have the right people they will be self-motivated. The key is to not de-motivate them." -
Jim Collins, Good to Great
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