by Early To Rise | May 20, 2002 | Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Time Management, Wealth, Work
Do you walk around the office? Some management experts think doing so is a critically important business skill. Others warn against it. In “Seven Habits of Highly Successful Executives,” Steven Covey makes suggestions for limiting and avoiding casual chats...
by Early To Rise | May 17, 2002 | Entrepreneur, Internet Business, Wealth
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” – Edmund Burke (A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756) Direct-marketing gurus will tell you that people buy...
by Mark Morgan Ford | May 16, 2002 | Motivation, Self-Improvement
“The advantage of doing one’s praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.” – Samuel Butler (The Way of All Flesh, 1903) The rabbi at JC’s wedding was a friendly looking fellow, and his sermon...
by Mark Morgan Ford | May 15, 2002 | Careers, Lifestyle, Productivity, Self-Improvement, Skill Development, Time Management, Wealth, Work
Yesterday, we talked about the problem with “monkeys”: If you are not careful, colleagues and subordinates will try get the monkeys perched on their backs to leap onto yours. Be alert for this kind of “reverse delegation.” The smart manager,...
by Early to Rise | May 14, 2002 | Careers, Lifestyle, Wealth, Work
“Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.” – Sophocles (Oedipus the King, c. 430 B.C.) In his book “Monkey Business,” William Oncken describes this all-too-common — but easily fixed — problem that most managers...