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A Managers role
I read a great post over at “Thinking Faster” blog called “What’s a manager to do?” “I think in the modern economy, a manager can add at least three valuable attributes: translation, clarity and resolution.” Translation – “translate” the goals and directions from the CEO on down into actions and plans that people can work […]
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Investing in yourself
General notion is that when we are at work, we are there to earn. In fact, the other side of the equation is that when we are at work, we are also investing in ourselves as professionals. In her post “Visibility trumps Hard work“, Astha underlines exactly the same. “There are tons of executive derailment studies which […]
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Great Quotes : Listening
Good Listening skills are crucial for managers – I wish all managers followed Stephen Covey’s mantra of “Seek first to understand then to be understood”. Good understanding comes from a good listening and the quote below underlines exactly that. A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw, the less he spokeThe less he […]
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Great Quotes : On Career
Via post “The Career Manifesto” from Michael Wade’s blog ExecuPundit.com “Although your title may be the same, the job that you were hired to do three years ago is probably not the job you have now. When you are just coasting and not thinking several steps ahead of your responsibilities, you are in dinosaur territory […]
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For managers – no news is not a good news
Lisa Haneberg over at Management Craft asks a provocative question: “(As a manager) Do you have the communication practices, habits, and processes in place to ensure that you know what you need to know?” As she rightly conveys in her post, no news is not a good news when it comes to being a manager. […]