10 Common Leadership and Management Mistakes
It is a fact of life that everyone makes mistakes at one time or another. Oftentimes, the mistakes are great learning experiences. As Oscar Wilde put it in his inimitable…
Resolving Conflict at Work
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." – Carl Jung, Swiss psychologist Conflict in the workplace is pretty much unavoidable, given that…
What Exactly Do Managers Do?
There may be many among you who are not discharging a managerial role. There may be yet others who may be holding a managerial-like post but may not be schooled…
Core Competence Key to Competitiveness
“The diversified corporation is a large tree. The trunk and major limbs are core products, the smaller branches are business units; the leaves, flowers, and fruit are end products. The…
What is Your Leadership Style? Find Out
What is common to Christopher Columbus, Mahatma Gandhi, and Steve Jobs? Perhaps very little. Yet they were all leaders in their own right. More to the point, they all had…
The Importance of Team-Building Exercises
Teams have become an essential part of the way business is done in companies the world over, from Xerox and General Electric to Australian Airlines and London Life Insurance Company.…
Business Strategy is Crucial for Competitive Advantage
Strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty, based on consideration of resources and an assessment of the internal and external environments in…
Management By Walking Around (MBWA)
“If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realise they have…
Time Management
Almost every one of us faces the same problem – lack of time. But don’t we all have 24 hours in a day? So, how come some do not complain…