Leadership Lessons from Donovan McNabb
After five quarters of football on Sunday, November 16, 2008, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Cincinnati Bengals played to a 13-13 tie. This tie was the first the NFL had seen in six years – ties, it seems, are rare in the NFL.
After the game, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was quoted [...]
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Goldman Leaders Forgo 2008 Bonuses
In a recent email from one of our readers, we were asked to weigh in on the Goldman Sachs Group’s leadership decision to request no bonuses for the current calendar year.
What are your thoughts on the following article? How does this reflect leadership during these troubled times? – Tye Mills
(To [...]
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The 25 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Use
From the overused to the clichéd, we are inundated on a daily basis with annoying and ridiculous business phrases from the lips of well-meaning managers.
Why so many of us, present company included, rely on the latest catch phrases or tired business jargon to relay a particular message [...]
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It’s the Leadership, Stupid
These past few months have seen the greatest turmoil in the worldwide credit and stock markets most of us have ever experienced. With depression-like drops in equities and recession-like layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies, nearly everyone has been too busy bailing water to blame the Captain… until now.
While much of the culpability for [...]
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Proper Email Etiquette for Business Signatures
In response to numerous requests to a recent series of posts covering proper email etiquette, the editors of AskTheManager.com decided it was time to put to rest the question on what should be included in a business email signature.
For those of you not familiar enough with Outlook to create your [...]
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Leadership Lessons from Fantasy Football
Tonight kicks off another season of NFL Football. To many, this is the most anticipated day of the year – especially to the millions of fantasy football players.
The editors of AskTheManager are fantasy football fanatics and we spent most of our draft last week discussing how fantasy football intersects with management [...]
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Whatever Happened to Good Business Writing?
(To read the first article in this series, please follow this link.)
(To read the Twelve Worst Business Email Etiquette Mistakes of All Time, as determined by the editors of AskTheManager.com, follow this link.)
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As promised in yesterday’s post, here is the list of my favorite typos, grammatical errors and other business [...]
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Whatever Happened to Good Business Writing?
I’m embarrassed (for the sender) to report that I received the following email from someone trying to sell my company their product:
Subject: revolusionarry new interent product
Dear prospective buyer,
Do you strive too ensure you’re team are always there most producive? Are you tired of not having axes to rapports on a [...]
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