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The Need to Accurately Understand the PEOPLE in a Process

Contributed by alan on Friday, April 1, 2011

 

 

In many, if not most knowledge/office  worker processes, the people are analogous to the machines in a manufacturing or physical process. 

I've seen a lot of talk recently about the importance of attitude over other factors in employees and of course, this is nothing new.  When it comes to performance of people in the different processes that occur in business, a better more accurate and powerful way to look at it is suitability.  Suitability, typically encompasses the traits that underlie most of what determines a person's level of performance in a job or task.  These include a person's key personality traits and natural tendencies, work and task preferences, motivations, decision styles and attitudes.   

Entrepreneurial and other Misgivings

Contributed by alan on Thursday, March 31, 2011

Keywords: building a team, Entrepreneur, Hiring, team building

 

Today, I attended the Wall Street Journal series of events entitled How I Built It.    As a follow-on to their  ongoing column where they profile  entrepreneurs who have built successful enterprises, they are doing a small "nationwide" tour where their small business editor (and the audience) interviews a group of 6 of these folks in an attempt to better understand their experiences, success models etc…  

At today's even t(3/31/11), attendees included the founders/co-founders from the following firms: Popchips, One Kings Lane, Thrillist.com, Ouidad and Reef.

SWOTt and Often Disastrous Consequences

Contributed by admin on Saturday, April 10, 2010

Goal Achievement Critical Success Factors

Contributed by admin on Thursday, March 18, 2010

 

** Reposted from January 2006

Barriers to Effective Goal Achievement

Contributed by admin on Tuesday, March 9, 2010

 

Barriers (and myths) to Effective Focus and Goal Achievement

There are many reasons given for NOT being focused, for not having an understanding of the three dimensional (Looking in, out and all around) environment in which you operate.  If you want to hear them with your own ears, go find a group of business owners whose business has recently failed - it certainly is not the only reason but these are very common with them, I can assure you.

• There is not enough time to work through process

• We can't get buy-in from….???

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