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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Don’t shoot down ideas
Ideas abound, sometimes even from the most unlikely source in the corporation. That is why some foreign companies are even holding ideas blitz on a regular basis, if not annually. So they can encourage their employees to voice out their two-cent worth of ideas. And surprisingly, from this blitz of ideas out comes a jewel that can help the organization increased their earnings from great innovations, or even help them save from their expenses.
Sadly though, this is not always the case on our local organizations. With Filipinos who are known to be sensitive people, any new idea is often treated as a rejection of their current tried and tested system. Believe me, I have personally experienced this.
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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