THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

PUNCTUALITY

“PUNCTUALITY is being aware of other people's TIME. If others come on time, why not come EARLY?” - Joy H. Fernandez

TOPIC OF THE DAY

Mining Your Company's Talent

Have you ever worked with someone who made your own job difficult? Someone who forced you to pick up the slack, or who had "personality issues"? Such people make you feel like you're working two jobs — theirs and yours.

Such an experience makes you appreciate their rarer opposites — those who do their jobs really well. When you work with competent, caring people, you become more positive. The workplace isn't a grind. It positively hums.

Getting the right people on the bus, to use Jim Collins' phrase, is the single most important thing a manager can do. If you work for a large multinational organization, chances are that some of the right people are already on the bus. But how do you go about finding them? And once you do, how do you keep them?

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