Control Your Agenda
Friday evening you look at your calendar for the next week before heading out for a well-deserved couple of days off. When the next week actually begins, that calendar changes completely. Why? Because others are controlling your agenda. Do you see things start to pile up in the late afternoon, with requests coming in as […]
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- Jun, 12, 2017
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Jun, 12, 2017
Grease the Wheels, Don’t Jam Them Up
Friction is how your brakes slow your car, so you can bet that friction will put the brakes on your workplace, too. By “friction,” we are not just talking about bad feelings and awkward silences between people, though that is certainly one form of it. What we mean instead is anything in your working environment […]
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- Jun, 08, 2017
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Giving Something Back
Companies take corporate social responsibility (CSR) quite seriously these days, for a variety of reasons. It’s not uncommon to select a charity to support throughout the year or have a “day of service” where you send your employees out for some volunteer effort. Your employees or their families may be very passionate about certain causes, […]
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- Jun, 05, 2017
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Making Babies. Or Not.
In most industrialized countries, the replacement birth rate is about 2.0 children per woman. In essence, that means that when the two parents die, they leave two kids behind to replace them. In lesser developed countries, the necessary replacement rate may be higher due to higher infant mortality rates, but generally speaking when we talk […]
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- Jun, 01, 2017
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