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[4 Sep 2011 | 2 Comments | 221 views]
Why Email Makes You Stupid

Digg DiggEmail is supposed to be a communication tool. The problem is that most people are poor communicators. Email bombardment and mass email is clogging your inbox. You get a bunch of emails each day and you can’t reply to each one with the quality it might deserve. This result in a problem you might [...]

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[8 Aug 2011 | Comments Off | 283 views]
Top 100 leadership blogs – and the winner is…

This list of 100 great blogs is ranked by two different factors. One algorithm calculating a score based on five different factors by numeric hard facts about each blog, such as number of fans in social media, alexa rank, Google Page Rank and some secret search results. The other factor is a personal touch where [...]

For leaders, leadership, Teambuilding »

[5 Aug 2011 | One Comment | 95 views]
Us and them – how to build solid barriers

Do you think you influence people as a leader? Most likely you do. The first experience you will get when being promoted from co-worker to boss is that what you say is not trivial anymore. Your words are being analyzed and battered to pieces just to figure out “what you really mean” – speaking to [...]

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[29 Jul 2011 | 7 Comments | 2,700 views]
The rule of a micromanager

Having a micromanaging boss seems to be a huge problem if I should believe statistics based on visitors to my blog. 20 % of all search engine traffic uses keywords related to micromanagement, which indicates that this really is a problem in the office. It is interesting to see that most common search phrases are [...]

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[27 Jul 2011 | Comments Off | 170 views]
Vision by memo.

One challenge of leadership is to get everybody to work in the same direction, towards the same goals, this is not always easy and I am writing this to help you in middle management. Middle management often find themselves in a squeeze between loyalty to their employees and loyalty to the leadership. So what do [...]

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[9 Apr 2011 | 2 Comments | 546 views]
Is Trainability Underappreicated? And Talent Overrated?

- 5 Pivotal Points Often Overlooked in Hiring The hiring process is fraught with uncertainty. Making the right hire is no sure thing, despite the increasingly large array of sophisticated tools available to managers. We see job candidates scrutinized, resumes inspected, credentials probed, and yet when all is said and done the selection process is [...]