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Its A Booming Time For Business
If you were a man you expected to retire at 65 and die at 75; and if you were smart you banked enough dough to see you comfortably through that stretch. We figured we'd get at least 10 good leisurely years before the grim reaper shows up without having to worry about money. Turns out, we were wrong.

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Monkey Management: 3 Simple Solutions to Reclaim Your Time, Focus, and Sanity
Do you ever feel like you are carrying the weight of a thousand people on your back? Somehow no matter how good you think you are at delegating it still feels like you have a thousand things to do. It’s a feeling many entrepreneurs, managers and business owners have. William Oncken, author of Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey, calls it “the monkey on your back.”
Monkey Management
We've all heard the expression "getting the monkey off your back". In a management context, the "monkey" is a metaphor for issues/projects that small business managers or owners take off the backs of their employees and place on their own.
The Difference Between Moving Bolts and Moving People
Having experienced more than my share of bully managers and their proteges in both industrial and construction environments, it occurred to me that they use the same hammer and wrench mentality on their subordinates as they do with machinery. As managers, I don't believe that they using the appropriate tools for the job. There is a better way. But, it starts with this discovery.
How Setting the Example Builds Great Teams
We live in a monkey see, monkey do world! Men and women want to follow those who aren't affraid to lead the way not with their words, but with their example. Discover how setting the example can make the difference for you, read on...
Priority, Pareto, and the Gorilla List
Someone has to set the priority for actions, and if management doesn't do it the guy with the wrench in his hand, or the gal with the Blackberry, will.

Are You In The Game
Have you ever noticed that it is the people in the stands who supposedly know everything about the game? They give all kinds of advice, but you don't see them actually in the game. It is as if the game exists only for them. Many will say that yes, the game does exist for the fans, for without the fans, where would the game be? I'd like to throw a wrench into that argument and say that, yes the fans are an important part of the game, but without the players, the game wouldn't exist either.
Get that monkey off your back!
Whether you’re the CEO of a multi-million dollar business, a manager of a large team, a supervisor or a hard working employee, chances are there’s someone in your working life who will try to load extra things onto you. These ‘extra tasks’ are often called the ‘monkey on our back’.
Monkey See - Monkey Do
Have you ever stopped to think about how important our role as leaders and a mentors is in the eyes of the people with whom we associate. Whether it is at within your family, work, church, or professionally. My dad explained it this way, he indicated that it was what they called role modeling, and children especially, will do exactly as they see versus what they are told to do. Psychologists call it, "monkey see, monkey do”.

Monkey See, Monkey Do
The old idea of Monkey See, Monkey Do doesn't just apply to monkeys.
The Most Important Sales Leadership Discipline to Motivating Sales Teams
Sales team motivation can be an easy task, especially when appropriate disciplines are demonstrated by the sales leader. That is when employee motivation happens naturally. It is kind of like “monkey see, monkey do” approach. Motivation, no matter if it is self motivation or employee motivation, is defined as a motive to act. What motivates you and gets you to act, does not necessarily mean it will work for others, or lead to employee motivation. No one can motivate you, only you can motivate yourself. You cannot motivate others. As a sales team leader all you can do is demonstrate appropriate behaviours and create an environment where employees motivate themselves

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