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How to deal with a dumb boss

There really is no one who goes through a career without a boss that they may not necessarily be thrilled with. There are also those that wonder, how did this colleague of mine get promoted to be my boss. Sadly, sometimes bosses tend to not adopt any of the characteristics that can in fact make them awesome. Instead some tend to display characteristics that make working with them essentially torturous. As Ted Jenkin says in his interesting article on how to deal with a dumb boss, at least once during our careers

transitioning from a colleague to the boss

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Transition from a colleague to the boss: The challenges of management jobs

When I grow up, I’d like to be a boss. Perhaps not the most common career people end up having, but I am sure that it’s on your list too. The executive chair offers many benefits: Decision making power, great travel and of course the big money and all that sounds excellent, right? But is there something we are missing- can all that glitter be gold? We spoke with someone who should know. Michael Dams is currently the Managing Director and Director Central Europe (DA-CH) at National Instruments

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Laying the groundwork for Innovative thinking

“You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and still be in business tomorrow.” This quote lays out the challenges that an organization and personnel in management jobs today face. The new corporate mantra for most organizations specially post the 2008 recession is “innovation”. Everyone wants to provide new services, cutting edge technology, niche services that differs from others existing in the market. But what is the workplace doing to encourage innovation? How are organizations laying the groundwork for innovative thinking?

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Tips on fixing a work relationship

If you realistically think about it, we tend to spend a lot of time at work- perhaps even more in management positions. Considering this and just plain productivity reasons (that improves when our working relationships are good), it’s important to consider factors that can enable us to improve relationships with our bosses and colleagues alike. Everyone has a bad day and a wrong foot-ed start to the proverbial Manic Monday. But that is no reason to take the bad mood to the next work meeting because sometimes conflicts are just plain difficult to avoid.

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The Case for Vacations: Why taking time off helps you work harder

It is a fact well-known that everyone needs a vacation. Human beings simply aren’t designed to expend energy continuously. Rather, we’re meant to pulse between spending and recovering energy. It is for this reason that many offices around the world even have “renewal rooms” for employees to nap, meditate, or relax throughout the day. Vacation deprivation increases mistakes and resentment at co-workers, Businessweek reported in 2007.

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Building a workplace values manifesto for your team

With workplaces becoming more collaborative, people are increasingly looking not just for jobs, but also for organizations whose values and culture align with their own. As a manager, it is your decision on the working environment you wish to create – be it an authoritarian or a self-organizing working environment.

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What can you achieve through the tool of appreciation at work?

Today’s global labor situation have led to heightened concerns for employees about job security, elevated stress levels and a diminishing sense of company loyalty. As a result, HR professionals are confronted by problems like low productivity, negative workplace attitudes, increased absenteeism and larger attrition rates in the workplace. This makes recognizing the tool of appreciation at work a critical necessity.

future of sales manager jobs with robots

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The future of sales manager jobs is managing teams with robots

So, if reports are to be believed, Nestle Japan is hiring a thousand Robots to sell espresso coffee machines. The first batch of these Robots will already be ‘selling’ by the end of this year. These are chatty humanoid ’emotional’ robots called ‘Pepper’ costing about $2000 each. Apparently the Robot is also able to understand ’70-80%’ conversation and can interact with gooey eyed (or they hope) customers

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How do you create the right work culture?

Recently, @newscred ran a Twitter chat, the topic was: how do you create a culture of content in your organization? I’ve worked for 8 years now. I’ve been through 3 university degrees, and everywhere no matter what anyone says, I’ve understood one thing: one of the biggest impediments to successful project executions is not the technology, tools or anything fancy, but the people and their work culture. How do you create the right work culture?

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How do you experience work place culture?

Of late we have talked plenty on company culture- what it means to create one, how can we hire right to match, and most importantly how do we create the right, creative mix. Taking a step back, I thought through the question that was most pertinent before we began the real analysis- how do you experience work place culture?