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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Want to Grow? Learn to Delegate.
by Tracy Spears It’s a fundamental part of leadership, so why aren’t people better at it? Here are a few comments from people that admit to being horrible at delegation: “I can do it better
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4 Key Things You Need to Be Successful as a Hospitality Business
by Amy Collett The hospitality industry is one that holds an enduring appeal for entrepreneurs. In fact, according to statistics by the US Small Business Administration, over 60 percent of the food and accommodation sector
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The 5 Reasons You Need to Hire High-Character Employees
At the heart of honorable behavior is a simple concept: character. Character refers to the most important qualities that define a person’s identity, according to Bruce Weinstein in The Good Ones. It is revealed not
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In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the predecessor of today’s CIA—issued the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, detailing sabotage techniques designed to demoralize the enemy. One section focused on eight incredibly subtle—and devastatingly destructive—tactics for
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BEST-SELLER DEFIES ITS AGE Thirty-five years after the publication of the original book, Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson have published an updated edition of their phenomenal bestseller, The One Minute Manager. Much has changed in
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MANAGING THE WHAT, THE HOW AND THE WHY The natural progression of a career often leads from a task-oriented position to a functional management position managing task-oriented people, and eventually to a general management position
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