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Many of us have been new managers early in our careers.  So if you think back to your first days you can probably still remember some of the challenges you faced.

Did your challenges include …How should I behave now that I’m a manager? Should I still be friendly with people I...

The biggest thing in the news this week has been “Invisible Children – Koney 2012” a 30 minute video by the Invisible Children organisation aimed at garnering support against African warlords.

Why is this video so “big”?

It’s gone viral.  In less than 5 days it had more than 70 million views (at last count it was over 100...

When discussing motivation, the metaphor of the carrot and the stick appears to have been with us for a long time.  It’s been suggested that the carrot and stick approach was first used by peasant owners of donkeys in order to keep their animals moving.  Whenever the animal stopped, the owner used to dangle a raw carrot in front of the...

We all lie.  Surprising?  Maybe, but apparently it’s true (pun intended).  In fact it’s been estimated that on average we all tell between two and five lies per day.

Leonard Saxe, Ph.D., a polygraph expert and professor of psychology at Brandeis University, says, "Lying has long been a part of everyday life. We couldn't get through the...

As Europe's governments, particularly Italy and Greece, struggled to manage their debt crisis, an editorial headline from the Financial Times read: "Leaders needed, not just managers".

I've long argued that when one gets appointed to a managerial position, it's the organisation that gives one the title of "manager". Then the manager is...

Three recent news stories in the Australian media, at first seemingly unrelated, have caught my attention in recent days.

"Norris' pay cut after rate hike fury"
Commonwealth Bank of Australia customers have struck back over the chief executive Ralph Norris's decision last November to push through a super-sized interest rate rise on...

After 168 years of publication, the British newspaper "News of the World" published its final edition on 10th July 2011. At the time, the newspaper was profitable. News Group Newspapers Ltd., the unit within News International responsible for the News of the World and The Sun, reported an operating profit of £18.2 million in the year...

Over recent times, we've seen organisations such as Arthur Anderson, World Com, Enron, Lehman Brothers and many more disappear.  In fact, of the top 25 industrial corporations in the United States in 1900, only two remained on that list at the start of the 1960s, and of the top 25 companies on the Fortune 500 in 1961, only six remain there...