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Chief Poingologist Mark Meshulam
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| Ultimately, no matter how high-tech your business tools, development and implementation of new initiatives will depend upon effective, productive communication between real live people... Read more |
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| There are times in every company when people "butt heads" with each other whether subtly or overtly. These conflicts, if persistent, can become detrimental to the business and should be addressed.
If you are a manager or co-worker of the conflicting parties, you can have a positive effect on tension reduction... Read more |
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Relatively speaking, the United States is a civilization baby. Only 230 years old at this writing, the U.S. is still in knee-pants compared with European cities, for example, many of which date back a thousand years or more.
Compared with cities rooted in Middle Eastern antiquity, where four thousand years of history is not uncommon, the U.S. is still in diapers.
The easiest way to tell the age of a city is by the width of its streets. Ancient Jerusalem is riddled with alleyways suitable for foot traffic only.... Read more |
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| Definition: talk idly or casually in a friendly way
Value: priceless
Gearheads like me have trouble understanding that great ideas and hard work aren't enough... you gotta shmooze too. Every day we deal with peculiar life forms called "humans", and they have needs beyond the performance of tasks. They like to connect on a human level, too... Read more |
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| People who manage the work of others can be rated along a continuum, one endpoint of which is "authoritarian", the other end is "democrat".
Authoritarians, as you would expect, manage by telling others what to do. They are not big on eliciting opinions of their subordinates, and not coincidently, their superiors usually treat them in much the same way.
They get whipped like dogs... Read more |
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