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Managing Yourself: How to Cultivate Engaged Employees – Harvard Business Review

Written by Gregory on February 17, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets.

Managing Yourself: How to Cultivate Engaged Employees – Harvard Business Review. This is an interesting perspective on Employee Engagement. A good read for any manager.

What is your organization medal count?

Written by Gregory on February 8, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets.

I was lucky enough to sit down with a very accomplished professional athletic coach this week and have a conversation that lead to the real mission of an organization. He shared an example that as...

Giving and Earning 300% Credit

Written by Gregory on January 31, 2013. Posted in Business & Markets.

The awful boss that is often spoken of who steals his employees ideas, robs them of recognition for accomplishments and hard work, and passes the blame for failure is the poster child of bad management....

Forcing Excel to Recalculate

Written by Gregory on December 2, 2012. Posted in Binary, Excel Skills.

Occasionally your computer might run out of RAM, or Excel could just get bogged down because you have too much open and things just start to not calculate properly. Sometimes everything is working...

ModelOff 2012

Written by Gregory on October 27, 2012. Posted in Excel Skills, Financial Models.

I cracked under pressure on the 15th green and it cost me the green jacket. Round 2 of ModelOff 2012 didn’t go well for me. I did exceptionally well in Round One. I found out confidentially...

Exceptional Excellence or World Class

Written by Gregory on October 23, 2012. Posted in Business & Markets.

Do you tell your team you want to be “World Class”? If you do, let me try to persuade your thinking and change your goal. To me, World Class means you are have achieved a standard of...