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Kritik zu geben ist eine delikate Angelegenheit - sie anzunehmen auch. Doch nur selten gelingt es, dass Kritik gut formuliert und auch gut angenommen wird. Im Gegenteil. Im Zusammenleben stellen beide Seiten, das Geben und das Nehmen von Kritik für viele, ja vielleicht sogar die Mehrzahl der Menschen, ein echtes Problem dar. Was wäre, wenn Kritik nicht nur wichtig, sondern sogar notwendig wäre im Leben? Was wäre, wenn Menschen, Organisationen und Unternehmen, Kirchen, Gemeinden, Werke und Einrichtungen Kritik benötigen wie die Luft zum Atmen, damit sie zudem werden können, was sie nach ihrer Berufung sein sollten?

Ever hire someone who seemed to be rock star in the interview only to find them substandard on the job? It happens frequently. Most managers have never received any formal training or instruction in how to structure an interview or how to select the best qualified candidate. This book introduces a four-step process, EPIC Interviewing, that provides hiring managers with a rock-solid roadmap making great selection decisions.

Product failures are never something that a product manager wants to talk about. We all live with the secret dread that someday the product that we are responsible for might turn out to be a failure. It turns out that we're all missing an important learning opportunity. Products do fail, and they end up failing for a wide range of reasons. Every product failure is loaded with fantastic learning opportunities for product managers. We just need to take the time and open our eyes to see what we can learn from each failure.

Who was it that said "It takes a village…"? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts. Today it takes the help of one or more partners to get your product to where it needs to be. Are you going to be ready to work with those partners?

Future-Proofing Manufacturing & the Supply Chain Post COVID-19 provides practical go-forward business concepts than can be applied to any manufacturer, distributor, logistics, or supply chain organization. It covers from soup to nuts, function by function including strategy, talent, product supply, operations, and much more on what a company should do to safely navigate, successfully emerge, and prepare to thrive near-term as well as following the pandemic.

In 2019, there were about 1.3 million active-duty personnel, less than one-half of 1 percent of the U.S. population. The Army is the largest U.S. military service, followed by the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. The Space Force became its own branch of the Armed Services in 2019. When the draft ended in 1973, women represented just 2 percent of the enlisted forces and 8 percent of the officer corps. Today, those numbers are 16 percent and 19 percent, respectively, a significant increase over the past half century. COMPLICATED ALLIANCES is an anthology where nine women ...

Any manager is only as good as his or her team. I'm pretty sure that we've all heard this before. However, that leaves us in a bit of a bind - more often than not we are just handed a team and told the make the most of them. However, it turns out that over time we have the ability to reshape and mold our team based on who we choose to add and remove from it. Learning how to do this the right way is what can determine the ultimate success of a manager.

Negli uffici e nelle imprese non è raro trovare gente impegnata in qualcosa di diverso dal lavoro: il gioco della colpa, la "macchina del fango" in versione aziendale, in cui si cercano di ottenere credito e premi per sé e di scaricare sugli altri la responsabilità dei problemi, che ne siano causa o meno.

CIOs need to be able to communicate their thoughts with the rest of their department and the company in order to maintain credibility as a thought-leader. Effective communication is a set of skills that every CIO needs to develop. Learn how in this comprehensive guide.

As an IT manager you understand the value of technology. It's what provides our teams with the tools that we can use to accomplish great things for our company. The challenge that we run into is that technology is always changing. This means that as an IT manager you have a responsibility to stay on top of all of the various technologies that your team will be called on to make use of.

In order for any IT manager to be a success, the team that you are managing has to learn how to work together. All too often what IT managers don't realize is that your team may not know how to work together and they are going to need you to show them how to do this.

All negotiations have to come to a close. When your next negotiation reaches this stage, you want to make sure that you are going to be able to walk away with the best deal possible. In order to make this happen, it's going to be what you've done during the negotiations that will determine what your outcome is.

An IT manager's budget controls what he and his team are going to be able to accomplish this year. No, creating a budget may not be the most enjoyable thing that you'll be called on to do, but it just might be the most important. The challenge that a lot of IT managers have when it comes to creating a good budget is that it requires them to master a number of terms and concepts that they may never have encountered in school.