There is a great deal of discussion lately in Greece about the need to reduce labor costs (i.e., salaries) in the private sector in order to increase Greece’s competitiveness. The theory is that by reducing their labor costs Greek companies will be able to deliver cheaper products and services, thus become more competitive, increase...
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Productivity
When you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Important But Not Urgent
After a couple of years worth of work as a solitary and lone soldier, following more than a couple of decades of more traditional executive life, yesterday was the one of these extremely rare days I stayed away from my daily world of emails, tweets, blogs and e-news. To a regular, non-wired person the...
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Multitasking in meetings
About a year ago I picked up a new habit: multitasking in meetings. I decided that bringing along my laptop to every meeting would give a hefty boost to my productivity since it would allow me to: take notes directly on my laptop, saving me all the time it takes to transfer notes from...
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Personal relationships in a virtual workplace
I recently attended a demo of the most advanced video conferencing technology I have ever seen. Larger than life screens, pixel perfect picture, crystal clear sound, unlimited bandwidth and super-fast processing created a unique experience of 8 people sitting around a virtual table, seeing each other in real size and communicating in real time. ...
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Communicate, don’t broadcast
As George Bernard Shaw once said “the biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”. One often hears phrases such as “I sent an e-mail about this”, “I thought we agreed on this in the meeting”, “I told George about it”. And it is only getting worse. Our whole communication...
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