July, 2010

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Hidden Costs 25

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Hidden Costs 25 As a business leader, if you think “costs” are only the ones where you spend real money, think again. Have you ever realized the costs of: having an inefficient leadership team? setting wrong examples? not treating people well? not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? long unnecessary meetings and deadlocked debates?

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Final Part: 7 Things Managers & Leaders Should Never Do

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Final Part: 7 Things Managers & Leaders Should Never Do I wrote earlier about “ 11 Things Project Managers & Leaders Should Never Do ” and then continued the chain of thoughts with another post titled “ 7 (More) Things Project Managers & Leaders Should Never Do. This is the final part of this series which is compiled to form a handy and portable summary “ 25 Things Managers & Leaders Should NEVER Do ” ( Download PDF ) If you are a sup

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5 Ways To Build Trust (Lessons from a Conversation)

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Ways To Build Trust (Lessons from a Conversation) One of my friends recently joined a new organization at a senior position. When we met over a cup of coffee a few days before his joining, he mentioned to me that his primary challenge would be to build trust. As professionals, we interact with a wide variety of people including our customers, suppliers, new team members, cross departmental folks and people at the customer’s end.

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Leading, Farming And The Need To 'Cultivate'

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Leading, Farming And The Need To ‘Cultivate’ Many years ago, I had a chance to visit a friend’s farm on a weekend. My friend owned a huge farm on the outskirts of the city where they had employed farmers. A farmer’s outcome was quality of the crop. To ensure this, the farmer worked the soil, got the best seeds from the marketplace, sowed them all and watered them with great care.

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Taking a “Project View” of Improvement and Change Initiatives

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Taking a “Project View&# of Improvement and Change Initiatives Yesterday, over a cup of coffee, my friend asked me about my first book and what was my approach towards writing it. I said that I took “project approach&#. This lead to an immediate realization that everything we do is a project, be it loosing your weight, writing a book, painting your home, getting a degree or managing an improvement initiative.

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Quality & Improvement: From “Experience” to “Advocacy”

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Quality & Improvement: From “Experience” to “Advocacy” Consider the following scenario: You go to a new restaurant for the first time. You evaluate quality of food and quality of service. Your first visit was about experimenting with a new place and getting an experience. A few weeks later, you go there again.

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Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect A few weeks back, my friend Becky Robinson at Mountain State University gifted me with a copy of John C. Maxwell’s latest book “ Everyone Communicates, Few Connect ”. The book, as the title suggests, is all about establishing meaningful connections to build great relationships at work and in personal life.

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