Interview with Greg Voisen on Inside Personal Growth
January 26th, 2012 // 10:14 am @ M.H. Nicholas
I really enjoyed my interview with author Mark Nicholas about his new book entitled ” I Come First-How the Individual Ego Rules Every Business Decision“. Mark points out that in business we encounter a world very much out of our control. We find mangers and colleagues of all types, each with individual aspirations, issues and priorities. Same are very smart and competent; others, difficult, bossy and incompetent. Mark says that no matter how hard we work, or how powerful we become, the business world is as it always has been: a bit unpredictable, subject to strong personalities and aspiring politicians, and more than a little personal.
Category : Book Review &Interviews and Mentions &Workplace Reality
The Politics of No Politics: Avoiding Politics in the Family Business
January 24th, 2012 // 5:13 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
In his 1964 stand-up routine, Woody Allen discussed the family business and explained that in his newly formed corporation he was the president, his mother was vice president, his father was secretary, and grandmother named treasurer. He explains that they all got together the first week and tried to squeeze him out. Luckily, he formed a power block with his uncle and sent his grandmother to jail.
Category : Guest Blog Announcement &Politics &Workplace Reality
Run by People: The Psychological Reality of Business
January 22nd, 2012 // 7:22 am @ M.H. Nicholas
The notion a corporation is a person, shorthand to indicate that a corporation as an entity separate and distinct from the people owning it, has become the subject of great political fodder. The politicized nature, whether or not corporations have the individual rights of citizens (such as free speech), masks the fundamental operational flaw of the corporation: that it is never separate but rather comprised of people, oftentimes with interests differing from those of the business itself.
Category : Efficiency &Leadership &Managing and Being Managed &Perception Issues
Leaders Don’t Fart: The Joe Paterno Collapse
November 9th, 2011 // 8:57 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
Coach Paterno, who was fired just as I began this entry, is among the most dramatic and painful falling of a leader that can occur. Coach was a superhero.
Category : Leaders Don't Fart
Join me at the West Hollywood Book Fair
September 30th, 2011 // 11:19 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
M.H. Nicholas at the West Hollywood Book Fair
Category : Appearances
Everyone Negotiates (Everything)
September 30th, 2011 // 12:19 pm @ mdbrand
Everyone negotiates. Like it or not… you do too. We talk with our friends about what restaurant we will go to when we get together. Unless everyone wants to eat the same exact thing, and they never do, we are negotiating. We negotiate with our family when we talk about who will run an errand, [...]
Category : negotiating &Workplace Reality
Leaders Don’t Fart: the Bartz Termination
September 9th, 2011 // 1:26 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
For Bartz, this stuff is symbolic of a person who does not understand that every word by a CEO of stature should be something to be considered, wise and thoughtful; but add emotion and profanity, insults and abrasion, and the respect is lost even if the substance exists.
Category : Careers and Employment &Leaders Don't Fart
Discrimination Against the Unemployed: Getting a Job the Easy Way
September 3rd, 2011 // 9:33 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
You should pay attention to the way businesses think (in general) when they fill positions. When it comes to filling positions with people who are unemployed, businesses assume a greater risk than normal (although these risks are always present).
Category : Careers and Employment &Workplace Reality
Guest Blog: The Politics of No Politics posted on BusinessZenBlog!
September 3rd, 2011 // 8:52 am @ M.H. Nicholas
Embrace politics, both the good (yes, politics is mostly good) as well as the bad, as part of a core study of human behavior and the group dynamic. I recognize that there is a process people must go through in order to make the “right” decision, and the ability to effectively assert oneself to achieve goals – both corporate and personal – is essential to the decision making process.
Category : Appearances
Don’t Let Your Body Say the Wrong Thing
August 23rd, 2011 // 11:22 am @ mdbrand
What does your body language say about you? Body Language and Sales Expert, Kevin Hogan states that “studies indicate you only have 4 seconds to make a good first impression and that first 4 seconds will be used as a yardstick for all future communication by those whom you meet.” In the first 4 seconds [...]
Category : Appearances &Blog
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