Shunning ostentatious frills and bloated executive pay packets are some ways a CEO can garner the respect of a company’s employees.
His name tag plainly says “Jim,” he answers his own phone, and his plain office at the company headquarters doesn’t even have walls. While other CEO’s are spending tens of thousands of dollars just [...]

Given the cost and time involved in bringing the boards of some companies together, whose members may reside in all corners of the globe, the last thing you think boards would want to do is spend the time discussing where the company has been and where it is at:
What I mean by this is that [...]

Your mileage may vary, but Nicholas Lezard found that simply looking busy at work brought promotional opportunities his way.
I discovered that the way to survive in a large company was: a) to have an office with a lockable door and b) to make sure that when outside the office, en route to canteen, pub, or [...]

What’s the point of five-year-plans when we have no idea what will really happen tomorrow, let alone in five year time? How about discovery-driven planning instead?
In uncertain environments, you don’t have knowledge. You have to make assumptions. The key issue is to know from the start that the plan is wrong. That’s the only thing [...]

Short wonder the MBA qualification is sometimes mockingly referred to as Management By Accident:
The strange thing about my utter lack of education in management was that it didn’t seem to matter. As a principal and founding partner of a consulting firm that eventually grew to 600 employees, I interviewed, hired, and worked alongside hundreds of [...]

The “average” executive psychopath is likely to be male and earning over $100,000 in annual salary. An interesting profile of the workplace psychopath:
An executive is someone who manages at a senior level of a major company or government department and earns more than $100,000 a year. A psychopath is someone with an anti-social personality who [...]

Henriette Weber is on a mission to make companies behave like rock bands. I think rockband’ism is something I could become enthusiastic about…
Now when I say rockbands – I don’t mean the puke-y, drunky, nasty stuff that some people would highlight is also a part of rockbands. Therefore I have created my own word “rockband’ism”. [...]

Being a Monday morning this may not be what you want to see right now, a list of workplace maladies, compiled by James Adonis. If you answer “yes” eight times, get out right now. :)
A survey of 2000 people conducted by Robert Walters found that 80% of employees view meetings as a waste of time. [...]

The five habits of effective and successful leaders by John McKee.
Truly powerful people have an air of calm about them. This helps those around them act more rationally and be more successful pushing the organisation through difficult times. Exhibit calmness at all times. It will become your nature.

Office gossip, an essential skill: This is of interest. “If you are constantly off having coffee with a colleague, chatting in the tea room and swapping office gossip over the printer, you are not a slacker. Not at all, in fact you are likely to be a high-performing manager.”
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