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More Leadership Lessons from Delta Airlines
In a recent post, we admonished Delta Airlines for the ill-conceived, confusing Delta Breezeway enacted in late 2007. It seemed that even months after its introduction, most Delta gate agents and Delta frequent fliers still had no idea how to use them.
We are proud to say that between Thanksgiving [...]

Tags: business situations, leadership news and views, leadership observations, management 101

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 [...]

Tags: time management

 
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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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 [...]

Tags: Leadership Advice, leadership development, management 101

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 [...]

Tags: Links to Leadership Resources, management resources

 
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 [...]

Tags: Management Advice, Management Training, Online Management Training, sales management, sales training

 
The Best of the Sales Management Blogs
A colleague asked me this week about my first commissioned sales job – he, too, started in sales and worked his way up to management. After a few minutes of friendly banter about old school sales managers and the like, we went back to our regular grind.
Reflecting back [...]

Tags: Management Blogs, management resource lists, sales management, sales training

 
Holiday Gifts for the Office Crowd
‘tis the season to think about all the people who helped you get where you are today. Whether you are a senior leader or an up-and-coming manager, it’s important for you to thank those who make an impact in your work life. And by “thank,” I mean give them something [...]

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