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What Does the Average Manager Doing an MBA Need to Do to Become a Great Manager?

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It took only a few months, and now the search for culprits behind the current economic mess has arrived on campus. What caused the recession? America’s business schools. As the New York Times points out, some of the most prominent poster children for the crisis and bailout are financial sector leaders who learned their management [...]

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The Risk of Having a Team of Robots: Delegating vs Monopolizing Work

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Do you want a team that is able to think or a horde of cyborgs who follow blindly your commands? That is the question that I asked myself today, already knowing the answer  (a waste of mental energy). There’s people who feel comfortable delegating work unto others and there are those who don’t. Usually those [...]

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Tips for adjusting to your new job

So you got a new job… cool… but now you are more lost than a sneaker in a fridge, right? You know no one, everything is confusing, you feel like everyone is your boss and the pieces don’t fit. The list can go on forever. Don’t worry. Perfectly normal. Every time we move to a new [...]

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At work don’t give orders. Empower!

I learnt something today. Yesterday I had a meeting with the director of my program in which we agreed to make some minor changes in my unit. Today I broke the news to my team and they weren’t welcome very cheerfully, especially by veteran staff. Why? Obviously (now that I have time to think), people doesn’t [...]

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Getting better at Recruiting and Retaining (World of HR Management)

Recruiting and retaining are two challenging tasks in the HR/Mgmt world. Key to it, is realizing what population we are considering to fill those spots in the workplace. Today, a great percentage of those applicants were born between 1980 and 1999 and grew up during the 1990s and 2000s . They are the Gen Y. [...]

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Leaders Emerge by Talking First and Most Often (on Psyblog)

I found this interesting post on Psyblog: “put some random people in a group, give them a task and soon enough a leader will emerge. What is it about that person that makes others grant them the honor of being in charge?” Go to the article clicking here. convey_source = “English”; Technorati Tags: group, group [...]

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Tackling new projects, thinking out of the box

Every time we have to start a new project or venture we are faced with one of the most difficult decisions to make: How do we start? Where do we start? Some years ago, a good boss of mine told me: “don’t try to reinvent the wheel, recycle and optimize what you already have”. I’m [...]

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