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Remembering Sacred Commitments

Persuasive Powerhouse

This is, I suspect, a rare dialog, but an important one, especially for political officials such as this one. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Mary Jo Asmus : January 18, 2011 at 5:58 pm Me too, Susan.

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Lost and Found: Great Fullness

Persuasive Powerhouse

Lost: corporate politics. Found: helping clients traverse corporate politics. Home Who We Are What We Do Services Contact My Favorite Blogs All Things Workplace Bob Sutton – Work Matters Brain Leaders and Learners Bret L. Found: a calling Lost: corporate colleagues. Found: a community of friends. Lost: steady paycheck.

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Catching Flies

Persuasive Powerhouse

I know that your workplace can be politically charged, even ugly sometimes. The next step is to have a heart-to-heart with my manager to discuss the reasons and rationalizations he and his boss used in promoting someone who hadn’t accomplished all of the requirements of the job.

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Lifting Others with Your Words

Persuasive Powerhouse

Why do we constantly need to be reminded to be polite, offer praise for job well done? Managers need to make sure they often use these feel good comments to keep spirits high in the workplace. One of the easiest ways to implement a positive environment amongs peers. Do we really need to be always positive? I enjoyed reading this post.

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Let Them See You as Human

Persuasive Powerhouse

matt ulinski: September 12, 2010 at 9:13 pm Mary Jo, Having to converse one on one with an upper manager can be very intimidating but it is important to remember that at the end of the day they put their pants on the same way we do. Employees and managers should get to know each other in the work atmosphere. But hard to do for some.

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Navigating the Transition from Friend to Boss

Harvard Business Review

Psychologist Abraham Maslow argued 60 years ago that a sense of belonging is one of the most basic human needs, right after food, water and safety. As one first-time manager said: “It’s hard for me to adjust to managing people who used to be my coworkers. Leadership transitions Managing people'

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

In spite of these realities, clarity can be achieved and cultural, socio-economic, and political differences mitigated by analyzing needs and aspirations of both individuals and groups. My firm has modified Maslow's hierarchy of needs to analyze and categorize these varying levels of basic, enriching, and fulfilling consumer needs.