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Category: Management and Leadership (Page 5 of 11)

Why Do People Resist Change? 3 Key Reasons

React to ChangeHow do most people react to change? Why do people resist change? Experience suggests that most people don’t like change and will resist it in different ways. Some will resist and react to change in subtle ways without showing their hand and others will openly challenge any form of change.  Managers hoping to introduce any form of change that impacts others in the organization need to be aware of the 3 key reasons before implementing any substantial change in the workplace…

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Performance – 3 Laws

Based on the brilliant book “The Three Laws of Performance” by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan

PerformanceFirst of all, this short article is just an introduction to the basic ideas described in great detail in the “Three Laws of Performance” This is one of those must-read books for all executives and managers. Nonetheless, it is hoped this article can create interest for you to go read the book and discover how this set of ideas is changing world-class organizations and top managers in many countries…

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Business Plan – The One Hour Plan

business planShould you spend precious management time on a business plan or not? This has been the subject of big debates. Good planning can strengthen an organization’s productivity, efficiency and profitability and yet few organizations make the time or effort to do this. Why? Well, there are some fundamental problems organizations face when they start out to make a serious business plan… .

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Leadership Lessons from Steve Jobs

From a ClickZ.com web article published in September 2011

Just like there will never be another Socrates, Wayne Gretzky, Winston Churchill, or Gandhi, there will never be another Steve Jobs. While we can never become Steve Jobs, nor should we strive to be (follow your heart), what we can do is understand what is the greatness of Steve Jobs and, where applicable, apply these principles to help us develop as leaders…

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Interviewing Skills – Some Questions to Assess Maturity

MaturityOne of the key challenges in any interview process is to assess if the candidate in front of you has the degree of maturity necessary for the position. We usually find it not too difficult to assess technical competence, communication skills and things like confidence and flair. Most interviewing skills do include assessment of personal attributes but maturity does not figurecourses talk about assessing technical, functional and personal  and But innate maturity is what sets one candidate apart from another when all other things are equal

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Motivate People – But How?

How do you Motivate People? This is an extract from an article in Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Frederick Herzberg – one of the most popular HBR articles of all time. It provides a really insightful look at all the things organizations do to motivate people without much success…

The surest way of getting someone to do something – is to deliver a kick in the pants-put bluntly, the KITA. But there is a danger that a manager might get kicked back in return, so companies usually resort to positive KITAs, ranging from fringe benefits to employee counseling. But while a KITA might produce some change in behavior, it doesn’t motivate people…

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