SLAUGHTER: The prudently fast are winning the race
As we wrap up the final quarter of 2011, it’s clear the struggling economy is not a deterrent to many entrepreneurs.
Robby Slaughter
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SLAUGHTER: Networking is more important than ever
Your personal network … is what will grant you the most direct access to the people you need to know.
SLAUGHTER: The lowdown on why you can’t find a job
The greatest challenge in landing a new gig is making a tremendous shift in perspective.
SLAUGHTER: We need a remote-work revolution
It turns out that, although we think of glass towers, cubicles and filing cabinets as the places where we go to accomplish something, the office is a terrible place to get anything done.
SLAUGHTER: When bosses behave like bullies
Many supervisors seem to have the same demeaning, demoralizing attitudes we encountered as children at recess. What do you do when your boss is a bully?
SLAUGHTER: Give employees chance to break your trust
If you want the best team with the strongest commitment to ethical behavior, you must ensure they have every opportunity to lie, steal and cheat.
SLAUGHTER: Don’t fall victim to ‘imposter syndrome’
We might think entrepreneurs, managers and highly paid professionals would be awash in self-confidence. Yet in a 1978 paper, Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes of Georgia State University wrote that, “Despite outstanding academic and professional accomplishments [many] persist in believing that they are really not bright and have fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.”
SLAUGHTER: Do you let the telephone control you?
The telephone has incredible
value. It’s also among the most effective ways to destroy productivity.
SLAUGHTER: Why you should kill the operations manual
You’ve
probably forgotten entirely about your company operations manual.
SLAUGHTER: Does your work flow bring satisfaction?
The satisfaction derived from work is more than just momentary bliss. Satisfaction is an essential component of productivity.
SLAUGHTER: Imagine a world without deadlines
The
reason we have deadlines is that they act as inflection points in the hierarchy of work. Each phase of work has a deadline:
an opportunity for failure and rejection.
SLAUGHTER: Learn how to say ‘no’ at work
Whether we
do so out of fear, greed or a sense of duty, relentlessly volunteering for more work is one of the worst choices we can make
at the office.