“Business Executives” Rank Low in Annual Honesty and Ethics Poll
While nurses topped the list for the seventh consecutive year, business executives earned relatively poor grades in the latest installment of the annual integrity poll from Gallup.
The poll, which surveyed just over 1,000 US adults earlier this month, asked respondents how they would rate the [...]
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Time Management – The Fruitless Effort of Trying to Manage Something that is Unmanageable
The Time Management Blogosphere has not taken a break in advance of the holiday season; and they continue to deliver much of the same drivel that is common with Internet postings on managing time.
As any marginal leader knows, you cannot manage [...]
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Vendors Give The Darnedest Things…
Loyal reader Tye Mills sent us a question in response to our Leader’s Gift-Giving Guide article.
What are the top 10 wacky gifts you have received from vendors? – Tye Mills
Great question, Tye…
Hmm, let’s see, the unfortunate result of most truly wacky or bad gifts from vendors is that they are [...]
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Best of the Leadership Development Blogs
The past two weeks on the Leadership Development blogs delivered a middling of mediocrity and only a few top posts. Whether due to the economic turmoil or to some post-Halloween hangover, some of the strongest leadership writers have been quiet. (Luckily, we had a few posts, as did Dr. Earl [...]
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Old Sayings are Often Gold Sayings
Yes, that hackneyed phrase was as hard to type as it is to read, but I used it to illustrate a point: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; you do reap what you sow; and actions do speak louder than words.
Is it just me, or [...]
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Phil Savage, Cleveland Browns GM, Responds too Quickly
While email etiquette in business has long been an important topic to the editors of AskTheManager.com, we’ve never pontificated on the importance of responding expeditiously. We’ve posted articles and opinions about email typos, email signatures, and we even ranked the worst email etiquette mistakes of all time in [...]
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Great Recruiting and Hiring Tool – and it’s Free!
It’s not often we are swayed by someone’s idea of the latest, coolest website on the Internet, but we discovered a website recently that absolutely could cut time and dollars off the way managers and companies recruit and hire new employees today.
Typically, companies must spend between [...]
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Reciprocity – Sales Training 101
From a very early age, we all learn about reciprocation. That is, when someone does something nice for us, we tend to do something nice for them. As humans, most of us don’t want to be indebted to someone else – especially someone we barely know.
In sales, we often forget [...]
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