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Leadership and Options

January 19th, 2010 · 554 Comments

What do you do when hopelessness seems on the horizon? What do you do when it appears you have tried everything and nothing is working? What do you do when it appears that you are at the end of the road?

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Monitoring Employee Satisfaction – The Advantages, Considerations and Risks

July 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Although there are distinct advantages to conducting regular employee satisfaction surveys online to measuring employee satisfaction – there can also be risks. Documented here are the main advantages, considerations and the possible risks to conducting employee satisfaction surveys online.

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Getting Employee Satisfaction

June 26th, 2009 · 940 Comments

I’m not happy. The printer has still not been fixed and now my chair is broken. The problem with the company is that it is going to the dogs. My boss is okay but has no clue what is going on.

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Look Externally For Inner Strength

March 17th, 2009 · 1,202 Comments

In these challenging times, so many of our projects and programs are more challenging than usual. We are called upon to make tough decisions to solve difficult problems and to squeeze more out of every resource we have. How we face these challenges has more to do with our approach and attitude than anything else.

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Tags: Soft Skills

The Learning Curve Revisited

January 5th, 2009 · 1,524 Comments

The learning curve was “invented” many years ago. It refers to the competitive advantage derived from having learned a great deal about a product, service, market, or other competitive factors along the way. The learning curve can be a tremendous source of competitive advantage to organizations that have rode it upwards, especially when compared to those who have not yet accomplished that learning.

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Techniques for Generating Great Ideas

March 5th, 2008 · 1,072 Comments

Techniques for generating ideas have been around for a long time; however, like many other things that have also been around along time, it is a special skill unto itself. Excellence at the skill of generating great ideals can pay great dividends personally and professionally.

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Tags: Project Management Process · Soft Skills