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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Holiday pay guidelines
Filed under: Announcement, Business news, Employee's Benefits, Government, Legal, management
The whole country will observe Holy Week next week. It is a week that only have two working days, which prompts the labor department to remind employers of the holiday pay guidelines.
As stated in the Proclamation 1699, declaring the list of official holidays in the Philippines, Araw ng Kagitingan (April 9) was moved to April 6, the Monday nearest to it.
April 9 and 10, meanwhile, are Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, which leave only April 7 and 8 as the official working day for the day.
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