The free flow of employees and ideas encourages innovation. Just ask Silicon Valley. Noncompete agreements, once restricted to tech workers and high-level executives, have become commonplace among ordinary workers, including security guards, home health aides or hair stylists. If history is any guide, the spread of these contracts could have far-reaching negative implications for the…
Category: Management Tip
15 unmistakable qualities of a bad manager
Your manager typically has a HUGE influence on what your job actually looks like from day-to-day, and what your career path will be in the future. There’s a quite popular saying that goes: “employees don’t quit their jobs, they quit their managers.” And there’s a lot of truth in that saying if you think about…
Management Tip: Mean-Spirited Managers
You know it’s pretty amazing that when some people come to "power" (as in getting promoted to management) they suddenly become a horse’s derrière.
Management Tip: Do You Have A Skeptic on your Team?
Do you have someone on your staff that seems like he or she always has the knack to quickly and accurately size up a situation, but at the same time this person always seems somewhat skeptical of some of the company’s decisions?
Management Tip: Bottom Line: Identify, Hire and Retain The Best Talent. Period.
This is a re-post from several years ago, and after reading it (and many other original posts that appeared on this site) the validity of the claims in this article still stand. Despite a changing world, some strategies remain effective.
Management and Marketing Tip: The Pareto Principle...
The Pareto Principle is also called the "80-20" and "Vital Few and Trivial Many" rule.
Media and Advertising: Do Media Sales Organizations Understand (Or Care About) The Advertiser's Needs Anymore?
Media companies today are quickly losing touch with the needs of the advertiser.
Study Reveals That A Bad Boss Can Make Employees Sick
For 75% of Americans, bosses are a major cause of stress at work. A Linkedin article published by Quartz magazine reveals that a bad boss can be as harmful to employees as passive smoking. The article also says that the longer you stay in a job working for someone who stresses you, the greater the damage…
Gallup: Why Managers Must Ask 5 Questions to Empower Employees
It’s likely that you can easily recite your team members’ roles and responsibilities — what they do. But do you clearly understand, and can you explain, why they perform well in their roles? The most effective managers Gallup has studied share the ability — regardless of industry or organization type — to understand and describe…
Noncompete Agreements Take a Toll on the Economy
Despite sky-high housing prices, Silicon Valley remains the vital center of the U.S. tech industry. Once an industry takes root in a particular place, it’s very hard to pull it away. Which makes it all the more important to understand: Why did Silicon Valley become Silicon Valley in the first place? One prominent theory is…