Management Rights: A Pitfall When Negotiating Your First Contract
Management rights clauses have found their way into almost all union contracts.
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11 Scrooge Approved Employee Motivation Ideas You Should Never Use
What is the #1 way to increase motivation in the workplace? Well, we have our pet motivational theories and ideas, but we wanted to explore some of the horrible, terrible, Scrooge-approved ideas that are still floating around in the year 2012. But back to the bad ideas. We gathered some stories from around the internet …
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Fired in real time: Never meet with your boss at 4 pm on Friday
My boss, and his henchman, arrived promptly for the meeting to discuss my sales update. It was 4 pm on Friday afternoon, approximately 48 hours ago. I knew something was up because my boss started speaking totally in sentence fragments. “I’ve made up my mind, things aren’t working out, I need people to get along, …
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There Is No Crying In Business, Yet
Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner cries on “60 Minutes.” He cries during a swearing in ceremony. He cries in another interview. Will it be long before he cries over a lost parking spot? In fact, enter the phrase “John Boehner cries” into Google and you’ll get 351,000 links. Holy Tip O’Neill, what …
Five Years of Silence
A while back Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas achieved a quiet milestone. He has gone five entire terms as a Supreme without asking a question. Just to put this in perspective, no previous Supreme level judge had gone one entire session without asking a question. Five years. Hello darkness my old friend, I’m come to …
Poor Leaders Can Decrease Worker Productivity By Up to 40 Percent
As Newswise reports, based on employee engagement research by Florida State University business school professor Wayne Hochwarter, recession-based uncertainty has encouraged many business leaders to pursue self-serving behaviors at the expense of those that are considered mutually beneficial or supportive of organizational goals. This plays out in behaviors that Hochwarter’s team classified using the biblical …
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Can You Succeed in Business Without Being a Jerk?
When Kobe Bryant was recently asked what his fifth championship meant to him he replied, “One more than Shaq.” Which got me thinking, why does it appear that so many successful people are jerks? Or worse. Do good guys really finish last? When it comes to success and the jerk factor, you quickly discover that …
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Chaos 1, Order 0
Before Northwest Airlines became a memory following its merger with Delta Airlines, it offered a moment of brilliance. The company decided it would no longer board their planes by rows. You know, seating people in ten row clumps starting from the back of the plane. Why would they end what is clearly the most orderly …
The Consultants Have No Clothes
This week’s blog should get me in a lot of trouble. But I think it’s time that someone points out that many of the biggest business consultants, authors and speakers run really crappy businesses of their own. Okay, I’ve heard all the jokes about consultants. All go basically down the same path—a consultant is someone …
Leadership Quiz
Ready for that corner office and a reserved parking spot? Tired of waiting for your boss to die? As a service to you, my readers, I’m going to give you a much easier path to a fancier office, bigger paycheck and higher quality headaches. Take the following quiz and you’ll immediately know if you’ve got …
