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Who Moved My Cheese?

17/01/2013 /

Who Moved My Cheese? is the best-selling business book of all time.

It reveals profound truths about change that give people and organizations a quick and easy way to succeed in changing times.

Here there are some quotes you can find in this book:

“The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese”.

“See what you’re doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better”.

” The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists”

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Spencer Johnson, the first Medical Director of Communications for Medtronic, is one of the world’s most influential thinkers.
His eleven international bestselling books include Who Moved My Cheese?® An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change, and The One Minute Manager®, co-authored with Ken Blanchard, the world’s most popular management method for more than two decades.

Negotiating skills

13/12/2012 /

What does it take to be a good negotiator? There are many skills involved in negotiations and they should all be considered by those involved in diplomatic negotiations.

In this illustration realized by Stefano Baldi on the basis of his experience in multilateral negotiations, it is possible to have an idea of the main skills that are required for a successful diplomatic negotiator.

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10 Leadership Practices to Stop Today

04/12/2012 /

If you want to be the best in your organization, you have to get rid of your outdated management style.

The old  command-and-control leadership is fading in favour of what might be better defined as trust-and-track method, where people are not just told what to do, but why they are doing it.

A culture of engagement leads to greater customer loyalty, and better financial success.

Paul Spiegelman, founder and CEO of BerylHealth, makes a list of  what is “in” and what is “out”

Here are some examples:

1. Out: Micro-management – In: Empowerment
2. Out: Management by walking around the office –  In: Leadership by watching and listening
3. Out: Pretending you know everything – In: Knowing your leadership team members and trusting them.

And many more…

Read this interesting out-in list at: http://bit.ly/RRGIWW

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