1. “Yes, we are reading your emails… and your IMs.” Like many financial services firms, Wedbush Securities monitors the daily emails, instant messages and social networking activity of its 1,000-plus employees, says Mattias Tornyi, the company’s Director of IT. They use an email monitoring software to flag certain types of messages and keywords within...
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According to a recent survey by Abobe : There is increasing pressure to be productive rather than creative at work and people spend only 25% of their time at work creating. Welcome to the new workplace where you are expected to attend a lot of meetings to spread out decision making and your presentations are...
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Trust defines every interaction in a working relationship, it builds intimacy and it strengthens bonds. Without trust no relationship can thrive. Unfortunately people don’t always cherish trust the way that they should. Because it is often given freely at first it is also easily taken for granted. When trust has been damaged it can spell doom...
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There’s nothing worse for a team than a disruptive employee who tries to undermine your authority at every turn. One individual working against the group can drain the time of their colleagues and distract management from the issues that should really be being dealt with. That is why it’s essential to identify problems as...
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If your business has high employee turnover than be worried…be very worried. Oh sure, you can believe the bull about a lot of people being out of work and looking for jobs but on average it takes almost 90 days for new employees to fit in and learn their jobs. If someone is...
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If you’re anything like most managers you’d probably be glad to skip most of the meetings you’re called to. They soak up too much of your time. They are too formal and filled with data-focused PowerPoint presentations. (In one corporation I know of, the average presentation for strategy sessions in a single business unit...
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“Never apologize, it’s a sign of weakness” – John Wayne. When General Patton slapped a soldier in WWII for, what he thought, was an act of cowardice he was ordered to apologize to the soldier, everyone who was present when the incident occurred and everyone under his command at the time. Later he...
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Mismanagement is alive and well in corporate America
Meetings are supposed to be a time of creative problem-solving (is that a joke?)
Never confuse a business associate for a friend
How much did they pay you to give up your dream ?
What causes people to really love their work ?
