You might have noticed a theme in the last few blog posts – toxic staff… You might think I am anti “employees”, but you’d be wrong. The problem does not lie solely with staff, but with who hired them in the first place. Once someone has been hired, it’s increasingly harder to get rid of […]
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Today’s blog post is quick and easy. Letting someone go is never easy, but every once in a while, it’s necessary. Here is a quick way to know if you should let someone go. Ask yourself this simple question: “If I knew then what I know now about this person (all the good and bad), […]
Character is what you do when no one is watching and your reputation is what others perceive you to be. That’s why it’s important that you make the right impression every chance you get. It takes a lifetime to build character and yet reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Remember that the next time […]
I like and hate articles like the one attached. I like them because they make a point and I hate them because MOST people MISS the point. Mike Krsticevic gets it and sent it to me – he’s the one who highlighted it for you! Click here to download the Zappos article with no opt-in […]
In a recent Financial Review article, Michael Mauboussin, author of Think Twice: Harnessing The Power of Counterintuition, explained how star performers fail when they switch companies. His explanations and identification of the three sources of perceptual distortion is absolutely brilliant. This is the kind of stuff that is being collated, collected and assembled for Professional […]
I am not sure this team really understands the concept of TEAMwork… Not exactly what you’d call a high performance team…
We all know the saying that Together Everyone Achieves More. But something tells me this group of employees somehow missed the point. This hilarious video was submitted by Andrew Powell of Montreal Canada.
Recently, a client was being bagged by an ex employee and asked me what to do about it. I told her that the Law Of Attraction is more powerful than gravity and will reward her for focusing on the positive side of things rather than the negative. Whenever I come across people who complain and […]