Why do some people remain so calm and collected in the face of looming deadlines, combative meetings, impending layoffs, and turbulent changes? The key, the experts say, is resilience. The good news is that anyone can learn how to weather storms...
Business often feels like a contact sport. Your competitors want to rough you up, blitz you with unexpected new products, undercut your prices, gang up on you via alliances or mergers and hammer away at your stock price. The important thing is a...
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New Year's is the traditional time to set new goals, both for yourself and your organization. We asked Performance & Profits readers to tell us their New Year's resolutions for the workplace, and here's what they said....
Heraclitus once stated that “the only constant in life is change.”
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The time to start thinking about retention is not as your employees are walking out, but when they're walking in. Many firms have found that making retention a chief consideration in the recruitment process has reduced turnover and improved...
What is your company's "driving force"? It's your organization's people, according to Peter W. Schutz, former CEO of Porsche. In his new book, The Driving Force: Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People, Schutz offers ten ways you can change mediocre work to extraordinary performance....
Do you waste precious minutes-or even hours-searching for information or documents? Do you find that despite your best intentions, your "to-do" list never morphs into a "got-it-done" list? These simple tips from organizational expert Carol Halsey will put you in control of your workday and your life
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