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Giving Constructive Criticism
It’s a fact of life we can’t avoid. Whether it’s working in a professional environment, learning in the educational realm, or interacting with friends or family, at some point in time we all have to face criticism. How we may perceive that criticism depends on whether we are on the giving or receiving end. When done right, constructive criticism is not meant to hurt or humiliate a person. Rather, constructive criticism is meant to build a person and push them to reach the next level of success. Learning how to give constructive criticism makes a difference in regards to how others view an individual and also how he or she demonstrates leadership. This issue of Astronology takes a deeper look into how to give constructive criticism in the workplace.
Why the Titanic Sank: Sweat the Small Stuff
Most of us don't realize how the small stuff can get in the way. This article desicribes how one minor oversight caused the deaths of hundreds and sank the largest vessel of its time. It wasn't the expensive hardware, it was something we can buy on Amazon.com.
Are You Having Fun At Work Yet
Arupa Tesolin, author of the business intuition book Ting! & the Innovation book Spark interviews Coach Michael Bungay Stanier on the important philosophy of fun at work.

The Guy Who Stands Still Gets Killed First.
I have a nephew who just turned 12. He’s a smart young guy, and he taught me a valuable lesson a few months back. Like many 12 year-old boys, he’s a video game hound. He owns the very best that Sony has to offer. I used to be a video game hound too, going back to my first Atari in 1980. When it comes to video games, much has changed in the past 27 years, with super fast-paced action, vibrant graphics, thundering sound, and a much more complex controller to make it all happen.

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Business Success Begins By Partnering Attitudes with Knowledge
Small business owners and business executives continue to focus on acquiring new knowledge to stay competitive. However, if you are still not as successful as you desire and have employees not delivering the results that you planned, maybe it is time to rethink your focus to create sustainable change.
The Value of Change
Marketing people can be divided into two categories: those who resist change and those who welcome change. Guerrillas are in the second category. They not only welcome change, but they also are ready for change and respond to change.

What You Think is What You Do (and Who You Are)
Most people when they want to figure things out or change what is going on in their lives tend to focus on the external…the doing. They say to themselves, “What do I need to be doing differently?” When the question should be, “How am I thinking about this situation?” Anything we do in the ‘external’ has its genesis in our brains…the internal. Whatever is happening outside of us in our lives is a reflection of what is going on inside of us…specifically, inside our brains. So if we want to change, we need to focus first on how we think about it…whatever it is. How are we connecting the dots and how can we build new hardwiring so that we can travel a different road to where we actually want to go instead of the old road that keeps dumping us off in the same place that isn’t working for us.

Profitable Online Business Ideas and the Recession: Keys to Success Part 2
In the last article we discussed the need for change. Without the willingness to change, nothing will change in our life and circumstances. We can want change or things to change all we want. We can want change or desire for changes in our life till we are blue in the face, but nothing will happen till we take a step towards that change. You hear people all the time talking about wanting things to change in their lives, but sadly nothing ever does. Why? They seem to want things to change. They agonize over the things going wrong in their life, but nothing changes. In truth, things usually get worse.
Competing on Price in a Down Market
When companies change their focus to customers really challenges rather than focus on sales, Sales go up as do profits.

Change is a Fact of Life --- Six Keys That Make a Difference
Without change your company becomes stagnant, uncompetitive and boring. A leader's major responsibility is to create change, instigate change and then manage change effectively. In spite of the fact that creating change is a key competency required to be an effective leader, most people resist change. This includes leaders themselves. However, effective leaders accept change as a positive force and they are able to convince those that follow them that change is nothing more than a roadmap to a new and better destination. How do these leaders minimize that natural born resistance to change?

Business Leaders: Here's a Simple Communication Strategy to Improve Employee Performance
This article identifies an important aspect of leadership communication. Many leaders continually focus on trying to change poor behavior in the workplace by telling people what they don't want them to do. They focus on the negative undesirable behavior. There is a better way that will get significantly better results, that is focusing on just the opposite and this article outlines strategies to do just that.
Creating Organizational Change, Motivation and Momentum
Change is the one constant that businesses can rely on today. Navigating such change can be a challenge to organizational leadership. Helping employees understand the need for change must be a focus of leadership. Understand the motivational needs of the employee base while clearly communicating the needs of the company will become a much-sought skill for leaders today. This article addresses some challenges faces by organizations within the ever-changing business environment and offers insight into the change process, organizational communication and motivational attributes of the employee base.
Trust Measurement: How to Measure Smarter
Trust is an attribute, a value and a character trait that is very much on every leader's mind. We are seeing more and more programs which focus on building and maintaining trust. Leaders want to be sure that they are getting value for money and therefore look at measures which can report the ROI. Sometimes, though, this focus on immediate or even medium term ROI misses the deeper meaning behind these kinds of efforts. When you are changing attitudes and behaviours, you are working at a deep level of change. You have to look at different performance metrics which don't focus on quantitative results but can look at the deeper layers of change. Dr. Dean Spitzer is my performance guru and has written a useful guide on Transformational Performance Measurement
Sales Leaders Must Accept Change
As a sales leader, you will face change in one of two ways. One will be externally imposed and caused by a change in conditions such as your market or competition. It will hit you when you least expect it. The second is initiated by you. It is the desire to improve and to strive to be better. Your internally driven focus can generate the energy and excitement for effective change. Change is coming. Which direction do you want to take for you and your sales team?
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