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Mediation strategy from Harvard Business School...

Here are some ideas about sources of stress at work, followed by some tools from avoiding any personal stress. First decide your own definitions of success and then use the Setting Well Formed Outcomes form for making decisions...

Socratic Method: A method of teaching or discussion, as used by Socrates, in which one asks a series of easily answered questions that inevitably lead the answerer to a logical conclusion...

Sales tool - Questioning techniques from Sales on the Line...

Flash card - Do you really need me to make this decision?

Flash card - How do you feel about this?

Flash card - Lack of planning on your part...

The United Kingdom has a long standing system of delivering milk in bottles to the door. At the beginning of the 20th century these milk bottles had no top. Birds had easy access to the cream which settled in the top of the bottle. Two different species of British garden birds, the blue tits and red robins, learned to siphon up cream from the bottles and tap this new, rich food source...

There is a legend I'd like to tell you about. In its message may lie hope of a future for your organisation. Here is the story of the Hundredth Monkey...

As each bird flaps its wings it creates an uplift for the bird following, by flying in a "V" formation; the whole flock has 71% greater flying range than if the bird flew alone. Many of us recognise that there is a lot I can do by myself, there is a lot I can do with a colleague or partner, but the power of what I can get done with a network group is quantum...

An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them...

Many years ago in the hills of Patagonia there was a village. Its inhabitants were starving. They lived in fear of a dragon that they had seen in their fields and they would not go to harvest their crops...

A father and his son owned a farm. They did not have many animals, but they did own a horse. One day the horse ran away...

A lady brought her son and said he ate too much sugar. She wanted Gandhi to tell him to stop. Gandhi said to bring the child back the next week. The next week she brought the child and Gandhi said "Stop eating sugar child". And the child did...

Once upon a time there was a farmer who had an old mule. The mule fell into a deep dry well and began to cry loudly. Hearing his mule cry, the farmer came over and assessed the situation. The well was deep and the mule was heavy. He knew it would be difficult, if not impossible, to lift the animal out...

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was...

Every moment of your life is an opportunity to change completely. Your beliefs. Your life’s direction. Your destiny.

NLP provides us with a set of models of the world; they are called NLP presuppositions. Some of them are introduced below...

Our senses are the doorways of our perception. All we know of the world we know through our senses. We have five main sensory modalities, or representation systems...

We experience events in our lives in different ways. What one person describes as exciting, another may think of as frightening...

The Meta Model was described by Grinder and Bandler in their book The Structure of Magic* (1975) as a result of studying change processes used by therapists. It develops previous work by Chomsky, Bateson and other transformational linguists. It was the first result of their co-opertion and represents the beginning of NeuroLiguistic Programming, which is an approach to modelling behaviour...

In this strategy, you reveal some of your values by the way you react to the characters in the story. Later on, in examining your reactions to the characters, you will become more aware of your own attitudes.

By Cara Cunningham, from Red Herring, October 30, 2000

Ideally a board of directors operates independently from a company, but oversees it with the company's best interests in mind.

Forty per cent of the companies do not have a set of selection criteria/competences to identify top managers.

More progressive companies have developed competencies that go beyond the traditional approach of leadership style, decision-making and commercial awareness, and include multicultural awareness, risk management, networking and customer focus.

Have a look through this list to identify some of the things that are important to you. Can you think of any others? Please let us know, so that we can improve the list.

A poem written by pupils at Leechpool Lane School for Roffey Park Management Institute (in 1996)

Dee Hock rescued and built Visa as a 'chaordic' organisation. He then disappeared, to prove that the concept did not depend on an individual leader. This is a summary of his approach.

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