What did I do wrong?
This is how the presumption of guilt starts, you wonder from the start “What did I do wrong?” – especially when your boss calls you for a meeting.
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Why Education Plays an Important Role in Your Career
As odd as it may seem, education plays an important role in the evolution of your career. From interview to promotion, education helps a lot.
Constructive Feedback or Hate
Most of the times the difference between constructive feedback and hate is a fine line that can quickly escalate to harsh criticism.
Back To School
As the manager/employer you need to be there when your employees children go back to school and and help when school starts.
You Can’t Even Imagine How Much You Can Achieve Without Email
I am not starting a cult called “Without email”, but if you are employed – you are in great danger for the electronic letter to eat your heart out.
What I Said and What Did You Hear
What I said might be or not be right, but anyway, often we say something and people hear a different thing.
Can’t Push an Old Lady Down the Stairs and Ask Why She’s in a Hurry
You shouldn’t push an old lady down the stairs, but neither should you do that to anyone else.
Don’t Wait For the Perfect Opportunity
If you are planning to wait for the perfect opportunity, you’d probably have a lot to wait in vain.
Don’t Yell!
You can talk, NOT yell and still share your point of view. No matter if you are a teacher, a parent, a manager or a cashier, you cannot earn respect by using force.
You Can’t Have Performance without Measuring
You need to keep measuring every activity in order to track its progress/regress. If you go shopping for shoes, you ask for a specific size.
Everyone Cooks the Soup with the Same Water
What I mean is that basically everyone starts from the same water when cooking a soup and that getting to a different result/flavor is totally up to us.
To Get a Good Answer, You Need to Ask the Right Question
The right question will always help you get a good answer. If you don’t know how to ask, you will get the wrong answer.
Respect You Earn, It’s Not Attached to Your Business Card
Once you are promoted to a new position, you may expect it to come along with the respect of your colleagues or superiors.
A Lying Salesman Won’t Earn Much
Generally speaking, a liar loses credibility fast, but a lying salesman may easily decrease the value of a certain product, service or even the brand.
You Cannot Treat Every Employee the Same
It’s the same as stating that every employee is different, that they don’t have the same needs and don’t respond to the same kind of motivation.
Why Everyone Hates Corporations
Everyone hates corporations because they are bacteria eating all our resources, of course. If we look around us, without corporations we would not be here.
Why Don’t You Sneeze With Your Eyes Open?
Of course you can sneeze with your eyes open, is just that your body’s reflexes won’t allow you to, not before they activate the defense system.
Nothing Will Work When You’re Not OK
Everything around has a direct or indirect connection to what you do and nothing will work when you’re not OK.
Useless Procedures with Annoying Results
You obviously encountered some useless procedures until now and not only they don’t solve anything, but they are really annoying.
On Being Wrong
If you feel you have never done anything wrong, relax, it certainly did happen. Maybe no one told you, maybe you didn’t realize it.
Time Management Sucks
Dears, relying on time management techniques definitely suck and it’s a lot like treating a severe toothache with dandelion tea.
FAQ
According to an almost accurate translation, FAQ mean answers to the most frequent questions which may pop up when something new is introduced.
Can You Say No?
It may seem very obvious, but each time you say no to others, you say yes to yourself. This is very helpful when it comes to a better self management.
You Learn More From Your Colleagues, Than From Your Managers
It’s only natural to learn more from your colleagues than from a manager, simply because you spend more time together.
Try to Get Down the Stairs on All Fours
Even if you ever tried to climb the stairs on all fours just for fun or ‘cause you actually needed it it’s quite unlikely you have ever tried to go down the stairs the same way.
I Trust You
Even though for many employees it may sound weird, a manager should trust you. This is how an environment where mutual respect is quickly built looks like.
Don’t Leave Any Unread Emails
If you work for a company, no matter the size, it’s quite obvious you need to deal with a whole bunch of unread emails every day.
Why Going Back to A Company You Worked For?
When you get a job at a new company, it may happen that you won’t find there all that you have hoped for and then it’s very likely to think about going back to your previous employer.
How Much Stuff Can You Do Right at the Same Time?
I have written many times about multi-tasking and in the meantime not a lot has changed – because you can hardly execute more tasks at the same time.
What’s the Deal with Motivational Speakers?
Motivational speakers are becoming common in many countries, and this was clearly a normal situation but this doesn’t mean you are a good or a bad one