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Question: How would you estimate the number of fish in a lake? Um… drain the lake and count them? Assuming you don’t have the resources or the sheer force of will to do something so mind-numbingly boring, try this: Catch a thousand, tag them in some way, throw them back in and wait while they
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The goal of this book, written by Patrick J. McKenna, a widely recognized management expert, and David H. Maister, one of the world’s leading authorities on the management of professional companies, is to learn how to lead professionals successfully. The management of business professionals is a difficult job largely due to the fact that the
First, Break All the Rules – What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman What do the world’s best managers do? Why are their business units so profitable and productive? How do they keep employee turnover low and customer satisfaction high? The answers come to us from two massive studies
Have you ever made a snap judgment or assessment about a person or a situation and been right? Have you ever just known that something was about to happen moments before it actually did? Conventional wisdom suggests that our judgments are better when we have all the facts at our disposal, and have time to
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