Don’t Reply to All
Last night, at a dinner full of young professionals in Manila, the conversation turned (as it often does in such settings) to the challenges of working with certain managers. One issue that came up a few times was the use of “Reply All” on emails. Sometimes it was simply a time-waster (do we all really […]
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- Apr, 12, 2018
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Apr, 12, 2018
It’s OK to Change Your Mind
A lot of leaders seem to have trouble making decisions (which is unfortunate, when you consider that’s pretty much what they get paid to do). One reason people don’t like to make decisions is that they see a decision as a point of no return, and they hesitate to block off all other options unless […]
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- Apr, 09, 2018
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More Free Agents in the Philippines?
An article this week in HumanResources highlights the growing interest in freelancing among Filipino millennials. This creates a potential problem for business leaders in the Philippines, if the best and brightest people want to leave the corporate world and work for themselves, but it also creates some great opportunities for companies in the Philippines and […]
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- Apr, 05, 2018
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Forced Rankings Lead to Unforced Errors
Conversations about forced rankings and the use of the bell curve in performance reviews are bubbling up again. During the last month — in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Manila — we heard people debating the pros and cons of this approach. Let’s be clear: the only “pro” is that lazy managers can use it to […]
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- Apr, 02, 2018
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