The best thing you can do to communicate effectively, is to recognize and to adjust to your audience How many times have you been to a meeting and the conversation is really tactical and someone keeps elevating the commentary to 30,000 feet with overarching umbrella statements that don’t add much value. Or vice versa; its
My iPhone and iPad stopped synching correctly. All of a sudden, I could’t find the phone number I needed, or retrieve that important email. I didn’t waste time fixing the problem. At work, there are times when,all of a sudden, we fall out of synch. It happens. We pay a little less attention than we
All too often we hope that conditions will change. Or we expend a lot of energy trying to change circumstances so that we can achieve what we need to do. We do the same with people. When we struggle with our co-workers, we often complain (certainly to ourselves) about their style, their approach, their perspective.
In politics, we often see that candidates and parties have become so entrenched, so inextricably vested in their positions and platforms that it is hard for them to find common ground. And yet that is exactly where solutions lie. Every day we look to progress ideas and solutions with our colleagues, customers and partners. And
Dennis Rodman and Johnny Rotten don’t care if you like them. Their success talks for themselves and the bad boy image furthers their game. We aren’t them. In our work, we need to get along. How many times have you heard that managers can’t be everyones friend. That’s true – favoritism or ingratiating yourself with
Sometimes we start to feel sorry for ourselves, because we don’t have everything we would like to have. Maybe we would like to take that extra vacation, or buy that bigger house. At work , our boss won’t authorize that headcount we need to get the job done, won’t give us the budget we need.
Opportunity is not rare. Its is not elusive. Opportunity is around us all the time. The problem is that we expect it to come knocking on our door, to present itself to us. If you wait for opportunity to come knocking, you had better be prepared to wait a long, long time. The key to
Thought partnership is one of the most powerful tools of which you can avail yourself. Your peers are thought partners. Your customers are thought partners. Your employees are thought partners. Your boss is a thought partner. But you also need some input from outside the daily fray. Every day, all day, you are surrounded by
Negotiation Lessons from a Father of 37 by Miniya Chatterji | 7:00 AM August 31, 2012 Comments (14) Sudarsan is a man I met at a skills training center for below-poverty-line Muslim girls in Southern India’s Nizamabad district two weeks ago. He is a 55-year-old government clerk, who has with his wife over the years
As we move up the management ladder, we need to have a strong tolerance of ambiguity. It is one of the most elusive skills to learn, and yet one of the most critical. Why? • Not everything will be spelled out for you • Surprises happen • Shocks in the system happen (uncontrollables) • The