If you constantly stay late at work and work on weekends, it’s not because you have too much work, but because you can’t get everything done during work hours. The reason for this is constant interruptions. Think about this: When do you do most of your work? If you’re like Continue Reading
Management
Articles on Management
No – by default
It’s so easy to say “yes.” “Yes” to another gimmick, “yes” to agreeing to unrealistic deadlines, “yes” to mediocre design. Sooner or later, a pile of “yeses” will grow to the point where you won’t be able to see what you actually need to do. Make it a habit to Continue Reading
Meetings are poison.
I have already written about interruptions The worst interruptions are meetings. And here’s why: They are usually dedicated to abstract concepts, words, rather than real things. They generally assume the least possible speed of information exchange. Meetings are often organized like a TV schedule. You sit and wait for “your Continue Reading
Welcome to oblivion.
When you starting Business, no one knows who you are. And that’s just wonderful. Being a nobody is a great position to be in. Be happy that you are in the shadows. Use this time to make mistakes without the whole world knowing about them. Keep refining yourself. Work on Continue Reading
It’s time to quit.
It’s quite easy to lower your head and keep working on what you…you think, must be done. It’s much harder to lift your head and ask “why.” Here you will find several important questions to ask yourself to ensure that you are doing something meaningful. Why are you doing this?Have Continue Reading
E-business
When you start your own business, especially at first, and then during the process, potential clients may resort to tricks, as…consider themselvesbusinessmen. Imagine that you are a builder and you have been asked to construct a house. You say that the construction will take a month and you ask for Continue Reading
The value of experience
What is the value of experience in the absence of alternatives?Imagine you are choosing where to go on vacation for the first time in your life, and you have a choice between a hotel in Turkey or a hotel in Greece. Both are 5-star hotels with different yet comparable sets Continue Reading
Owner and manager
An important, or rather a key, difference between management philosophy in the former USSR and that of the West is that a key manager is mentally equated with the business owner. And the business owner is mentally equated with a landowner or feudal lord. Western managers, for example, are often Continue Reading
On the Value System
We all read the short fairy tale “The Little Hen Ryaba” in our childhood. It has become so clichéd that when we think of the word “fairy tale,” the first thing that probably comes to mind is “The Little Hen Ryaba,” competing only with the story of the gingerbread man. Continue Reading
The company decided
Often, you can find a way to solve problems in an organization simply by moving away from impersonal statements. Impersonality implies a lack of responsibility. “The company decided,” “this is the company’s policy,” “the company supports,” “management believes,” “it was approved in the business plan”… Behind all of this should Continue Reading