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Zig Ziglar On Age
The 1828 Noah Webster dictionary defines old as "outgrown usefulness; belonging to the past; shabby; stale." I can't imagine that you would…
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Selling Recognition to Top Management
For every recognition program there comes a time when you need to sell top management on the benefits of what you are doing --- to gain the support and credibility that comes from top management endorsement. For some programs this is before you start; for others, it is to be able to continue or expand funding. Here are three ways you can influence top management…
Recipe for Good Management: Allow Employees to Take Initiative
What makes a good manager? There are all sorts of definitions about management that attempt to describe what a manager does. Some of my favorites include "getting things done through others," "being paid to make the difficult decisions," and "protecting one's people from the rest of the organization." Yet I believe a better definition might be found in focusing on what a manager does NOT…
World-class Marketing: When and Where
Quadruple, even do thirty times your present product or service sales. Accomplish this in less than nine months!
What’s 200 Words Have To Do With Your Computer?
When I worked on Wall Street, I considered a move from one type of bond department to a new type of department. Even though I had been successful in the industry for 7 years, I was still afraid I that I wouldn't know how to be successful in my new department. Then I spoke with one of the other traders, George Adelle, who was also…
Extinguishing the Communications Fire Drill (How to Make Communications Technology Work for You, Not Against You)
Do you have enough time during the day to respond to all the messages others send to you and spend a high quality and quantity of time developing your people? Chances are, you don't. I've heard many managers complain because they feel drowned under the "product" of today's communications tidal wave - innumerable messages from cell phones, e-mail, fax, voice mail, etc.
