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Creativity for Managers

20/06/2013 /

The idea that Creativity is needed only by artists and dreamers is long gone. Nowadays managers are aware that to run a business, an administration, an office a lot of skills are required: flexibility, intuition, vision, inventiveness. In one word what managers need is Creativity.

Hubert Jaoui understood that almost thirty years ago and is spending his life explaining to others what creativity is and how useful it can be.

Here is an interesting definition by Hubert Jaoui:

Creativity is neither imagination, nor the opposite of rationality: it is a multi-logical approach

A lot of interesting demonstrations of how Creativity is an essential tool for managers can be found on the site: http://www.gimca.net/, e.g. the 6 pillars of management: human behaviour, motivation, delegation, time management, creativity.

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image source: Mr Fish in http://loft22.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/cognitive-dissonance-over-creativity/

Long Emails Don’t Get Read

30/04/2013 /

According to Craig Jarrow, the author of Time Management Ninja web site, effective email communication is as much a skill as anything else. The shorter and tighter your email messages, the better chance that they will be read, understood and acted upon.

Here are 10 Reasons That Your Emails Are Too Long:

  1. You don’t know what you are trying to say Long Emails
  2. You don’t know what you are talking about
  3. Your signature is unnecessary
  4. You are writing a book
  5. You are spamming
  6. You are rambling
  7. You are forwarding a mess
  8. It shouldn’t be an email
  9. It should be multiple emails
  10. You don’t edit your emails

In today’s high-speed communication, no one wants to read overly long email messages.

So, get to the point!

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Multitasking

25/09/2012 /

The subject of the Diplocalendar 2012 for the month of September is Multitasking.

The opposite of delegation, multitasking is an attempt to divide your mind and attention into several activities that you attempt to do all at once. Few people learn to do this successfully; in general it’s a recipe for failure.

More inspiring subjects on Diplocalendar 2012 that explores in both a serious and lighthearted way, some elements of interpersonal relationships and management that can help in daily activities.

How to handle the “Meeting Killers”

23/07/2012 /

Manage or simply participate to a meeting, can sometimes be hard. Colleagues and co-workers can become real “Meeting Killers”. The Wall Street Journal has published an humorous  editorial by Sue Shellenbarger, which provides advices and solutions to handle this situations.

Read the full article at: http://on.wsj.com/JaBDcT

What happens in your brain while you multitask?

10/07/2012 /

A study by Zhen Wang and Clifford Nass from Stanford University, analyzes what happens in a brain while a person is multitasking. Multitasking, at first sight, looks very productive and seems the best way to solve several problems at the same time, without ignoring even just one of them.

The study, instead, shows that multitasking decreases brain efficiency and doesn’t help memory and filtering of information. Listening to music, instead isn’t a way of multitasking and can also help the person to be more efficient and concentrated.

Read the full article to “solve your multitasking madness” at:

http://lifehacker.com/5922453/what-multitasking-does-to-our-brains

The Seven Weak Points of a Speech

05/07/2012 /

Mrmediatraining.com provides a list of the seven main causes that could make a speech uninteresting and boring:

1. Your Introduction Failed to Interest Me
2. One Thought Ran Into The Next
3. You Loaded The Speech With Technical Detail
4. Your Delivery Was Sleep-Inducing
5. You Didn’t Tell Me What You Wanted
6. You Read From Your PowerPoint
7. You Didn’t Manage the Question and Answer Period

Read the full post at: http://www.mrmediatraining.com/index.php/2011/10/27/seven-reasons-i-hated-your-speech/

Successful Time Management

08/06/2012 /

Effective Time Management is a challenge for everybody. Most people keep running all day long, complaining about time constraint. But have they ever analyses the way they emply their Time.

Bookboon has a vast collection of valuable free ebooks for Professionals. One of the best books is dedicated to “Successful Time Management” and can be freely downloaded from the Web.

“In this textbook you’ll will learn skills and techniques to prioritise your work, how to avoid time wasting events and how to communicate what you want and what you don’t want!”

Priorities matter; sequence, too.

20/04/2012 /

“You cannot achieve everything, certainly not at the same time. There are only so many hours in the day, only so many issues that any person can be expert on, only so much access that you can enjoy, only so many decisions that an organization can make. Priorities matter; sequence, too, can be terribly important. The key is to focus – something that takes real discipline, since in a typical day you might be confronted with more than a dozen issues, as many phone calls, several meetings, and inches of paper to read.”

(from Richard N. Haas, The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur. How to be effective in any unruly organizations, Brookings Institution Press, 1999)

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