Optimism in work
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Since 2008, we’ve been shrouded by recession and uncertainty, which brings us down, making us feel pessimistic and hopeless about everything and everyone. Bad news...
View ArticleIs your company within the new paradigm?
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The new postmaterialistic paradigm bears its head every so often in the media, almost too timidly for my liking. Postmaterialism is a concept defined by Ronald...
View ArticleCollaborate to grow together
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes In his book Cognitive Surplus, Clay Shirky helps us understand how Internet communities operate, the reasons why thousands of people share information and knowledge...
View ArticleLook after your employee like you look after yourself
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Many companies have gone through restructuring since the economic crisis started. Restructuring in general means “firing” some workers and leaving those left in the...
View ArticleEmpowered workers or “quack quack” employees?
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Some time ago, I talked about one of the keys to leadership, what we know nowadays as empowerment. Let me recall briefly the three steps that give empowered employees...
View ArticleDo you ignore the “little people”?
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Allow me to use the same term as Tom Peters, “little people”, because I think it’s easy to understand what and who we are talking about. Just to clarify, in case...
View ArticleHow to (de)motivate your employees
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes I’ve given the post a shocking title on this occasion, but I think that by simply doing the opposite of what many companies do, it will be extremely clear what...
View ArticleRebuilding confidence
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Seven months into 2012, we can safely say that we’re overwhelmed bad news, both on the economic and job front. The subventions that were promised for entrepreneurs do...
View ArticleSeven characteristics of a high performing team
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Nowadays, it’s not enough to build teams in organization that are more or less efficient. They need to meet the task. For that reason, as Ken Blanchard says in his...
View ArticleWhat is and how to give good feedback?
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Editor’s note: Today we’d like to share this post that Mertxe Pasamontes posted on her blog in which she highlights some of the points to remember when listening and...
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