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Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker..
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger..
The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When sett….
Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and ….
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path..
Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs..
Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people..
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people s….
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're ….
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything..
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a ma….
Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't tre….
If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all..
The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it ….
When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, an….
We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work….
Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brillia….
CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routi….
Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choi….
Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in p….
Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, ….