Every year, millions of top performers are promoted to management-level jobs––only to discover that the tactics that got them promoted are not the tactics that will make them effective in their new role. In Welcome
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Legendary General Electric CEO Jack Welch Dies at 84
Jack Welch passed away on Sunday, March 1, 2020 at the age of 84. The former GE CEO, whom Fortune magazine once named “Manager of the Century” died of renal failure, as reported in the
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If you’ve made the challenging but rewarding leap to first-time manager, you might not be sure what your next move is. What made you a successful employee won’t necessarily make you a great manager, and
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by Sarah Dayton In an ideal world a promotion to a managerial position would be a positive experience. You would feel valued and recognized for your hard work, dedication and expanding skill set. Your employers
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Great business books about great business leaders. Follow their paths to success. Listed below are seven of the best biographies and autobiographies ever written about some of the most successful business leaders and entrepreneurs of
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by Jonathan Gifford & Dr. Mark Powell We put a lot of time and effort into trying to make business scientific. We like to feel that there is a magic set of measurements that will
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Creating true change is never easy. Most startups don’t survive. Most community groups never get beyond small local actions. Even when a spark catches fire, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast as
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by Charles D. Morgan For all my 46 years as a CEO, my top two business tenets have been: Hire the best people you can get. Know what you don’t know. Today those two pieces
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In The Millennial Whisperer, author Chris Tuff squashes the myths and stereotypes regarding the Millennial generation and shows us how, by simply empowering, trusting and motivating one of the greatest generations of all time, the
Continue ReadingThe Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
Book Review by Andy Ghillyer For newly-promoted or rookie managers, one of the harshest lessons they will learn is that the skills that got them their promotions will bear no relation to the skills they
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by Tina Kuhn How to Communicate with Difficult People in the Workplace and Successfully Lead Any Personality Type Successful managers keep their organizations and teams focused on their goals and avoid the mire of drama
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by Shawn Doyle If you want great results, you need to work on being a great manager. Now. You start a business, and your business becomes successful, and your business grows. Then, you have to hire employees,
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by Barry O’Reilly There’s a famous story about an executive that hired W. Edwards Deming to spend a week with his team and offer recommendations on how to improve both their own performance and the performance
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