Tag: people

Although offices and management styles have come a long way in the past decade, the command and control style of management remains common practice in many businesses.This management approach basically means that workers are told precisely what to do, when to do it and even how it ought to be done.The supervisor is in charge, has all of the answers, and fixes all of the issues.It's not surprising that lots of people find this approach demotivating - and that offices with a command-control style are ranked as fairly unsatisfying...

The Chinese company practice is vastly different from the Western method that most of us might be accustomed to.Needless to say, with the Chinese market opening up, China's joining of WTO and the Olympics in 2008, many Chinese business practice are now starting to align with more traditional procedures.However, China will always have their own unique business culture and etiquette, given their distinctive history and background...

The undercurrent in U.S.business today may well be one of fear and even desperation.It would be easy to make such an assessment based on the amount of phrases that have been written about the topic of competition.Firms in the United States have lost their advantage, if the flood of articles and reports on the topic are to be considered.But is the issue really competition for clients or a share of the marketplace? Or is it something else?A Focus on ScarcityWe can make a case that the real enemy of any company today is the focus on scarcity driven by fear...