Executive Incompetence & Immaturity - How to turn around a failing organisation ________________________________________________________________________ ‘Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging’. Maya Angelou TWELVE months after being promoted the usually buoyant Managing Director was…
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Five Reasons Why Executives set Goals:
While time, money and satisfaction provide great motivation for setting goals, there are at least 5 practical reasons for executives, managers and others in corporate life to set goals. ____________________________________________________________________________ #1. Goals keep you focused GOAL SETTING is used widely by top-level athletes, successful business-people and entrepreneurs and high achievers in all fields for precisely this…
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Recruiting’s Dirty Little Secrets
What Corporate Headhunters Don’t Tell You THE web is cluttered with how-to advice about writing resumes: what words to use (or not), layout, headings, how long, how short, free templates,point-and-click resume builders, et al. Yet even using all the tools and applying expert advice, your resume may still miss the mark! Just ‘HOW’ and WHY’…
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Brown’s Job
Brown is gone, and many men in the trade are wondering who is going to get Brown’s job. There has been considerable speculation about this. Brown’s job was reputed to be a good job. Brown’s former employers, wise, gray-eyed men, have had to sit still and repress amazement, as they listened to bright, ambitious young…
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