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Managing your team | |
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Get them emotionally involved | |
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Know what a team is and how it works | |
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Set realistic targets - no, really realistic | |
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Hold effective meetings - no, really effective | |
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Make meetings fun | |
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Make your team better than you | |
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Set your boundaries | |
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Be ready to prune | |
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Offload as much as you can - or dare | |
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Let them make mistakes | |
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Accept their limitations | |
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Encourage people | |
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Be very, very good at finding the right people | |
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Take the rap | |
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Give credit to the team when it deserves it | |
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Get the best resources for your team | |
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Celebrate | |
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Keep track of everything you do and say | |
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Be sensitive to friction | |
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Create a good atmosphere | |
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Inspire loyalty and team spirit | |
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Fight for your team | |
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Have and show trust in your staff | |
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Respect individual differences | |
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Listen to ideas from others | |
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Adapt your style to each team member | |
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Let them think they know more than you (even if they don't) | |
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Don't always have to have the last word | |
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Understand the roles of others | |
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Ensure people know exactly what is expected of them | |
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Use positive reinforcement motivation | |
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Don't try justifying stupid systems | |
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Be ready to say yes | |
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Train them to bring you solutions, not problems | |
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Managing yourself | |
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Get it done/work hard | |
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Set an example/standards | |
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Enjoy yourself | |
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Don't let it get you down | |
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Know what you are supposed to be doing | |
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Know what you are actually doing | |
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Be proactive, not reactive | |
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Be consistent | |
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Set realistic targets for yourself - no, really realistic | |
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Have a game plan, but keep it secret | |
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Get rid of superfluous rules | |
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Learn from your mistakes | |
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Be ready to unlearn - what works changes | |
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Cut the crap - prioritize | |
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Cultivate those in the know | |
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Know when to kick the door shut | |
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Fill your time productively and profitably | |
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Have a Plan B and a Plan C Capitalize on chance - be lucky, but never admit it | |
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Recognize when you're stressed | |
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Manage your health | |
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Be prepared for the pain and pleasure | |
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Face the future | |
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Head up, not head down | |
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See the wood and the trees | |
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Know when to let go | |
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Be decisive, even if it means being wrong sometimes | |
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Adopt minimalism as a management style | |
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Visualize your blue plaque | |
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Have principles and stick to them | |
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Follow your intuition/gut instinct | |
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Be creative | |
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Don't stagnate | |
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Be flexible and ready to move on | |
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Rememeber the object of the exercise | |
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Remember that none of us has to be here | |
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Go home | |
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Keep learning - especially from the opposition | |
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Be passionate and bold | |
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Plan for the worst, but hope for the best | |
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Let the company see you are on their side | |
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Don't bad-mouth your boss | |
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Don't bad-mouth your team | |
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Accept that some things the bosses tell you to do will be completely wrong | |
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Accept that the bosses are as scared as you are at times | |
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Avoid straitjacket thinking | |
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Act and talk as if one of them | |
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Show you understand the viewpoint of underlings and overlings | |
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Don't back down - be prepared to stand your ground | |
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Don't play politics | |
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Don't slag off other managers | |
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Share what you know | |
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Don't intimidate | |
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Be above interdepartmental warfare | |
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Show that you'll fight to the death for your team | |
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Aim for respect rather than being liked | |
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Do one or two things well and avoid the rest | |
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Seek feedback on your performance | |
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Maintain good relationships and friendships | |
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Build respect - both ways - between you and your customers | |
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Go the extra mile for your customers | |
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Be aware of your responsibilities and stick to your principles | |
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Be straight at all | |