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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. What are the 8 skills? This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers.

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Two Things to Remember as You Change the World

Persuasive Powerhouse

In this world I’ve learned that there are very few quick fixes, despite what you might hear from marketers. Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the same time. That cream that will get rid of wrinkles in two weeks or the diet that will help us lose 20 pounds in two weeks are fairy tales.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired). By not doing anything you are just supporting bad management. “getting rid of&# a manager is not the right way).

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It's About What Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list.

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The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People

Harvard Business Review

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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A More Effective Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

The continuum essentially represents a corporate hierarchy of needs, akin to the famous personal-development hierarchy created by psychologist Abraham Maslow. Poor process management hinders effective board preparation, meeting management, and communications. Today's challenges require new perspectives and skills.