Posts Tagged ‘Decisions’
Attitude Gains Altitude
Your attitude will determine your altitude. Our own Marquette University Law School conducted a poll recently asking what people thought about the economy going forward. About one-third thought it would get worse than last year at this time. That was the highest number since this poll began in 2012. If we are thinking like pessimists,…
Read MoreDon’t bite off more than you can chew!
They bit off more than they could chew. This pejorative describes firms, companies, teams…you name it. It means, simply, that whatever company is being referred to, tried to be too much to too many or that it spread itself over too much geographic area. The company tried to do too much, and the company failed…
Read MoreCost of New Employees
There is a usual rate of increase in the cost of new employees as anyone in business understands. We are, obviously, in a situation today where that increase is greater than it has been in the recent past. Business in general is on the uptick. Certain types of people with certain backgrounds are in even…
Read MoreAbsolutely OK
It’s absolutely OK… The idea that we all know precisely where we’re going is not only incorrect, but it is also dangerous since we’re each often unsure of the answer to that question…if there even is an answer to that question. For some, the “where from here” question is one which we enjoy playing with…
Read MoreOpportunity
Opportunity is something we often seek and sometimes miss even though it might’ve bitten us on the nose if it wished, because we were so close to finding it. Napoleon Hill, a famous writer and philosopher defined it like this: Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. How many times…
Read More2018- A New Year, A New Reality
What is to come in 2018? We see a 2018 that will bring with it new opportunities and certainly new challenges. We know that the pool of great candidates for virtually any and all positions is what it was in the past: too small for us to delay on decisions when we find good people. …
Read MoreDifferentiators
Have you given much thought to the impact that differentiators have in your business or your daily life? Those are the sometimes subtle, or sometimes ‘in-your face’ things, that help each of us to make decisions through-out the days and weeks ahead. A differentiator might be the color of a dress or the pattern on a…
Read More"Procrastination is the Thief of Time…"
This blog is about procrastination (I’d have done it earlier but something else came up). Maybe a poor attempt at humor, but there is a factual basis for the statement. How many times can you think of when you had an unpleasant or difficult task to perform, and you found ‘reasons’ to put off that task?…
Read MoreTrust Your Team
“A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” Emmanuel Giavarini, Managerial Comm. Mgr. for a French Transportation System This quote attributed to the person identified above was found on her Facebook page and immediately made an impression on me. I suspect…
Read MoreVacation- Casualty or Necessity?
A recent story by Gail Rosenblum in the Star Tribune (Minneapolis – St. Paul) highlighted an interesting set of statistics from a report originally titled “The State of American Vacation: How Vacation Became a Casualty of our Work Culture”. That report queried more than 5,600 American workers (including some 1,200 managers) and was conducted by…
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