How do you put out a fire?
How do you put out a fire? By dousing it with water! That’s right; to kill a fire you simply douse it with water.
Now, how do you kill enthusiasm? Simple, by dousing it with water!
Now why and how, you may ask, pour water on enthusiasm? I’m not really referring to physical water here, of course you know that.
I used the analogy because enthusiasm is like a fire burning within an individual. People doused it with water by simply saying NO! STOP! THAT CAN’T BE DONE!
This is one of the most common management mistakes. Sometimes, an individual comes along with a new or an improved idea. Enthusiastically, he shares to the bosses, very confident that this idea would improve performance, cut costs, lead to better sales or really create big changes within the organization.
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How do you keep happy employees?
Filed under: All in a day's work, Articles, Career, Entrepreneurship, management
Would you believe that an effective way to keep your people happy is by firing away the unhappy ones?
Sounds like a joke? Jay Goltz really hoped it was.
Goltz, who owns five small businesses in Chicago, shared his secret in keeping happy employees in the company in the report from Yahoo! Finance.
Admitting that he doesn’t have a Ph. D., an M.B.A. or any economics degree, Goltz said that he had learned through times that you cannot make everyone happy.
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Laundry Business Seminar for February 2010
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For those who are asking, here’s the laundry business seminar schedule for February 2010 by my friend Nette.
Schedule of the next seminar is FEBRUARY 27,2010
It will start 9:00 am to 4:00 pm or till end of open forum
For the seminar, here are the topics to be discussed:
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What not to do during job interviews
Filed under: All in a day's work, Articles, Career, employment, roysville, self-help
Here are some interesting job interview no-nos which I have found CNN news and would just like to share them to you.
You may find some of them to be completely absurd, but as the article says, they were actually from actually experiences of the job interviewers.
Here they are, the job interview no-nos:
1. Bad Manners
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The Rubber Band Sorter
Just wanting to share a beautiful article about dreams and acting upon it to achieve success. I got this one from a yahoogroup I was once a part of. I hope you like it.
Joey has a problem. He wants to be a programmer. Joey’s big problem is that, while he wants success, he does things to make sure he will never have the success he dreams of. Joey constantly prioritizes trivial accomplishments that have immediate results ahead of potentially much greater accomplishments that have no immediate result.
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