Management

If Innovation Generates Revenue Growth – What’s Stopping You?

June 5, 2009

Business innovation is important. Agreed. Innovation can generate revenue growth.  Agreed again. So what’s stopping you? Resistance to change might be stopping you. It’s insidious. Want to experience it? Sleep on the other side of the bed tonight. Want to overcome it? Read on. Familiarity or comfort with the status quo is often at the [...]

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Selling Ideas – 5 Ways to Make it Easy to Buy

May 26, 2009

Are you in the business of selling ideas? A boss once told me two things. When you are selling ideas: “Make it easy to buy.” and “Take yes for an answer.” Simple and sage advice. Here are five ways you can improve your success selling ideas. Five thoughts / guidelines / principles, five Hip Shots [...]

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Meetings – 6 Ways to Avoid that Sucking Sound

May 7, 2009

We attend lots of meetings. This isn’t necessarily bad. A well manged meeting is a great opportunity to move the ball forward. You can also get great stimulation from interaction with colleagues. Here are 12 ways to build relationships at work. But I’m afraid that many most meetings are so badly managed they are nothing [...]

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