Trust is a must or the relationship will bust. According to Communication World, 64% of the workers say they often don’t believe what management says. No wonder, in one study, only 15% of managers say their communication reflects the “whole truth.” The trouble is–it’s not easy to tell the “whole truth” in times of change. Managers think they’ll have a …
Be The Captain Of Your Own Journey
The hard thing about doing nothing is you never know when you’re done. Sounds silly, doesn’t it? Yet that’s very close to the way a lot of people live their lives. They have no particular direction for their life or their career. They’re just putting in time and hope it all works out. Well it’s not going to work out. …
Learn to Say No – And Get What You Really Want Out Of Life
The man who works from 8 to 8 every day will both be very successful and fondly remembered by his widow’s next husband. Why do so many smart business people work too hard, live too fast, and then feel strongly ambivalent about their success? It’s simple. They’ve never taken the time to figure out what they really, really want, and …
Listening Is More Powerful Than Talking
Listen four times more than you speak. There’s no substitute for listening. Good listeners are not only popular everywhere, but after a while, they’re also quite intelligent. The higher people go in management and the more authority they wield, the less they are “forced” to listen to others. Indeed, the less they listen. In a survey by the research firm …