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What Many #Sales Focused Organizations Sometimes Forget (And How Not To)

March 22, 2010

I’ve observed organizations keeping no stones unturned to sell their stuff. From hiring (so called) intelligent management grads from top B-schools to making wild number of on site visits to making a local veteran (with 40 years of industry experience) overloaded with more functions than he can justify – just so that other persons can [...]

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Who Else Wants The Best Out Of The Team 51

January 18, 2010

Habitually express that they are important to you, to the project and to the organization. Laugh together on small accomplishments…and failures too to learn something from them and move on. Compliment them in public for the special qualities they have. Be as specific as you can. Give them necessary comfort when they really need it. [...]

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Four Causes Of Poor Performance (And What You Can Do About Some Of Those)

October 26, 2009

As a manager you must have dealt with poor-performance. To do that you need to essentially identify the problem and the causes which created the problem, decide on a solution and make the solution work. Poor performance can be a result of one or more of the following: Faulty management Unsupportive organization culture Inadequate work-systems [...]

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Seven Tips To Deal With Rationalization

October 12, 2009

In conversations about meeting the goals, when you hear something like below it means that you are listening to someone rationalizing. For example: I can’t. I’m too frustrated. I don’t have time. My situation is unique. I don’t have tools and resources to help me. This won’t work because… Because of Blah…Blah and Blah! Well, [...]

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Tips To Empower Your People 20

October 7, 2009

When your people are empowered, a major pillar of your business becomes real strong. Their job commitment is increased and they feel more powerful about their abilities. Empowerment encourages ownerships. It means they are ready to attack on the tasks fearlessly and everybody would love to agree that fearless teams would achieve much better results [...]

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