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7 Rules to Effective Business Meetings
Effective business meetings will allow you to optimize your productivity and that of your colleagues and improve the quality and timing of the group’s decisions. Following basic meeting rules will significantly improve meeting performance, yes, performance. Focus, candor, respect, discipline, and communications are the key ingredients. Let’s review these seven rules: 1. Schedule meetings only
Business Quotes by Warren Buffett
“A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse – not a remarkable mathematician.” “ABCs of business decay, which are arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency.” “Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” “Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.” “Don’t pass
Always Done It This Way…
Sometimes, simple answers provide clues to areas of improvement. How often have you asked employees or colleagues why they performed a function in a specific way only to be told that they had always done it that way? In other words, they were performing tasks in a certain way then because they had always done
Quotes by Albert Einstein
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” “A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?” “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still
Why Ask Why
Why is the most powerful question in business. Why questions allow questioners to get to the root causes of actions and behaviors. In managing, in coaching, in selling, in negotiating, in re-engineering, in successes and failures, identify the Why and learn from it. Learn so that you can do better. Learn so that you can