One of the most alarming trends of the Greek financial crisis is the continuously rising unemployment. Companies in all sectors of the economy are downsizing or altogether shutting down, creating a market where thousands of highly educated and skilled people are competing for fewer and fewer job openings. In this bleak market, I have...
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Individuals can make a huge difference. Coco Chanel is credited with single-handedly (albeit accidentally) turning sun tanning from a sign of poverty into a global fashion trend when in a 1923 cruise from Paris to Cannes she stepped off the Duke of Wellington’s yacht with a startling suntan. In a less haphazard turn of...
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In his recent post Nobody is Perfect, Nikos Moraitakis argued that employers would benefit much more from focusing on cultivating employee strengths, rather than trying to build the “perfect” employee by changing or improving on employee weaknesses. Of course, Nikos doesn’t forget to make an exception for the “amelioration of shortcomings that are inhibitory...
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Top performance in any facet of life can only be achieved when someone’s heart is really into what they are doing. Of course, loving what you do is not by itself sufficient as other factors such as talent, hard work, opportunity and luck weigh in. Ultimately, though, excellence cannot exist without desire and enjoyment....
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Effective management structures are those that can be operated through people who are less than perfect. This should not need any explaining. Unless you think your employees are in fact, or can be, perfect. Isn’t it paradoxical then, that most employee assessment and development programs focus on improving people’s weaknesses? (“areas of improvement”, if...
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