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It’s hard to stay positive all the time. Life doesn’t always give us exactly what we want, and often that irritates us. When we get frustrated or irritated, we can do a few things. One, we can totally shut down; two, we can try to make things bad for whomever got on our nerve; three, [...]
Good management principles can help turn around bad situations. Teaching someone how to become a good manager if they wish to learn can be a rewarding experience. Trying to teach someone those same concepts when they don’t want to learn them can be frustrating and hard to overcome; most likely, you’re wasting your time. However, [...]
One of the difficulties anyone who’s any kind of manager faces is that your job depends on others to make you look good or bad. Your employees can make you look like a genius, even if the best thing that happened was that you inherited them. At the same time, just because someone is good [...]
I’ve had a photo shoot or two in my life, which means I’ve used the services of professional photographers. After a recent session I realized that something many people might not have paid attention to are the kind of skills photographers have that exhibit a type of leadership that might be hard to recognize, yet [...]
“If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.” Unfortunately I can’t tell you who the quote is from because it’s pretty much in dispute, but it doesn’t matter because it’s a great quote anyway. I was prompted to think about this quote as I was having lunch with someone earlier today. As she [...]
After 17 years of the dictatorial reign of Kim Jong Il of North Korea, his passing a couple of days ago from a heart attack at age 69 has left an interesting choice as the next leader of the country, his 20-something year old son Kim Jong Un. This leaves many people worried as to [...]
I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about the need for people within organizations to be able to talk to each other. I really feel that businesses can’t progress if all the employees within can’t find ways to communicate with each other when it comes to taking care of business. However, I [...]
