Leadership Decision Making and The Law of Unintended Consequences
Certainly you’ve heard the axioms “nothing happens in a vacuum” and “for every action there is a reaction” before. We’re pretty sure that every thinking adult not only understands these sayings, but also believes them to be true.
Cause and effect, means and ends, [...]
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Why Does My Industry Refuse to Use Data?
True story – of course, whenever anyone says or writes this it generally means that everything else they’ve ever told you is BS – anyway, true story: a highly compensated colleague wrote to a group of fellow highly compensated colleagues and asked “does anyone have any data on [...]
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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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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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Leadership Means Knowing When Not To Act
Remember that great little restaurant you frequented a few years ago? You know the one; they had that terrifically tasty dish that kept you coming back again and again. Remember when they changed ownership and the new proprietors altered the recipes?
The way I remember it, the new owners [...]
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