The most common reasons why employees are not motivated are: Lack of confidence Worry Negative opinions A feeling of “no future here” Feeling unimportant Not knowing what is going on False recognition Lack of training If you understand what motivates people, you have at your command the most powerful tool for dealing with them. The foundation of all motivation is hope Hope is therefore a criterion [...]
Every important achievement began with a dream in someone’s heart.
John Jantsch wrote a great blog on What would you do with a million dollar marketing budget? to start everyone’s mind thinking, and writing from my desk in the UK, and looking at the Dollar/ Sterling exchange rate, not a challenge! Even absconding with it and setting up a home in Acapulco on £500,000 [...]
Now we all know there are only three ways to grow a business. There are many ways of making profits, but, I am going to be concentrating on growing a business. So, let me remind you of the three ways. Increase the number of customers that one has. The law of attrition says [...]
Success is a reward in itself, but the greatest reward of success is knowing you achieved it with hard work and dedication.
Email has become the worlds biggest time waster. What is possibly one of the finest communicating tools ever created has now become the biggest thief of our most valuable resource, time. If our work is interrupted by an email it takes approximately 4 minutes to get back on track. So just 15 emails a [...]
We all know that one of the biggest challenges we face in business is recruiting, trying to find the right candidate with the right skills, experience and drive to take your business forward. Many recruitment companies follow the same old steps over and over again. Such as:- They have NO unique brand They DON’T listen to their [...]
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
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