What is a Poke? The poke feature can be used for a variety of things on Facebook. For instance, you can poke your friends to say hello. When you poke someone, they will receive a poke alert on their home page. Source: Facebook A young woman, (we’ll call her Julie), is 24 years old [...]
Archive for the ‘Management’ Category
Confessions Of A First Time Manager
Posted in Management, Sales, Teamwork, tagged Management, Teamwork on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once upon a time there was a new sales manager who used the power of repetition to keep her sane, using a quiet, running mantra: “I love my job, I love my job…” My first days as a sales manager were tough. Well let’s be clear, the first year was tough. If you have read [...]
What Are You Inspiring Your Employees To Do?
Posted in Business, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Strategic Selling, tagged Business, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Strategic Selling on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s market with a challenging economy and in most cases, a slow down in sales, a sales team will take its cue from its leadership on where to spend its time. The easy messaging is to go out and sell, which may simply be a means to communicate a disconnect between corporate wants and [...]
Netflix Culture: Transparent, High Performing and Accountable, Part 2
Posted in Business, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Management, Self Development, tagged Business, Corporate Culture, Culture, Leadership, Management, Netflix, Professional Development on August 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In part one of this series, I talked about some key points in Netflix’s corporate culture that help them build a transparent, high performing and accountable culture. The corporate results are clear, they have enjoyed consistent revenue growth, a 26% increase in subscribers (Q2 09 vs. Q2 08) and a 21% growth in revenue (Q2 [...]
Netflix Culture: Transparent, High Performing And Accountable, Part 1
Posted in Business, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Management, tagged Business, Corporate Culture, Culture, Leadership, Management, Netflix on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After having reviewed the internal policy on corporate culture by Netflix, it makes me want to subscribe—and work there–just to be affiliated with something unique. If they are everything they say they are, they have created a working culture that is transparent, values its values as well as a hard working, team-oriented, “no jerks allowed” [...]
Is Management A Throw Away Category In Business?
Posted in Business, Employee Development, Leadership, Management, Training, tagged Business, Employee Development, Hiring, Management, Training on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s been interesting to hear the conversations about the quality of work satisfaction in the past year. While anecdotal, the trends seemed to move to a higher level of dissatisfaction. Job satisfaction is often a variable in a business environment—for a lot of reasons. In recent conversations however, this seems to be a fixed state, [...]
How To Anticipate An Unknown Market
Posted in Business, Leadership, Management, tagged Anticipate the market, Business, Collaboration, Down Economy, Management, Sales on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I recently tweeted that we should get comfortable with the word “mixed” as it will continue to get used and abused. Everywhere you look, the word is used to describe things such as housing data, market reactions, stock market results, economic data, etc. What executives and businesses shouldn’t have are mixed reactions about the need [...]
So You Think You Want To Be A Manager, Part 2
Posted in Business, Management, Sales, tagged Business, Management, Sales on May 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last week, we talked about the realities of management in my blog So You Think You Want To Be A Manager? Part 1 and guess what, I have more things for you to consider. I am firm believer that awareness helps improve preparedness, and hopefully you’ll find the humor in this as well. How do you [...]
