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Andrew Cox's Articles in General Business

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  • 12 Ways Leaders Tell Their People They Are Important
    Leaders know their actions speak more loudly than any words they may say.. Learn 12 Way successful leaders use their behavior as the means of communicating the importance of their people. These powerful behaviors can make the difference between a mediocre manager and a true leader
  • A Leadership Tool To Encourage Thinking Outside The Box
    Thinking outside the box is a critical Personal Skill - one that will make the difference between success or failure. The real critical leadership skill is accessing the thinking of others to help see what possibilities lie outsidethe box – outside the individual world of thoughts and beliefs and biases. Try this tool to get the "out of box" thinking flowing with your “universe” of people.
  • A New Hire, An Aquarium and Overcoming The Status Quo
    What does an aquarium have to do with the status quo and a new hire? More than you think. Read on and see how an experience in ignoring the rules of good aquarium management resulted in a lesson that has much broader application.
  • A Powerful Change Skill - Acceptance
    Acceptance is one of those things we rarely think about as a Personal Skill or a Change Skill, but it can make a huge difference in our success in change situations - in all parts of our life. Here's a story to illustrate my point:
  • Act In Today - Nine Rationalizations That Stand In The Way
    Acting in today takes hard work. It's the only way to succeed. And yet,for many people, the attraction of tomorrow is so great. But tomorrow thinking is a trap. And self talk is one of the biggest traps to tomorrow thinking – and failure. What follows are some of the most popular rationalizations of tomorrow persons.
  • Creating Goals - Dealing With Reality - The Power of Keeping Track
    Keeping track – creating goals - dealing with reality – creates clarity and keeps me honest to myself. It keeps me accountable for my behavior - for my own choices. I find when I keep track, good things happen - probably because I am dealing with reality, and not with that enemy of clarity - selective memory.
  • Five Steps To Achieve Personal Success - Today
    Here are five actions can you take - today - at no cost other than changing your own behavior, that can lead to greater personal success.
  • Goals, Opportunities For Success and Paying Our Dues
    What are the paths that come together to provide opportunities for success? How will we know when they come together? Will we be ready to recognize opportunity and act to succeed? What can we do to prepare for those opportunities? What does paying our dues really mean?
  • Hire The Right People - 10 Recommendations On Using Assessments
    Assessments are powerful tools to use in selecting the right people for the right jobs. And the higher up in the organization the more critical assessments can be to successful selection. Here are 10 Recommendations to help you decide how to most effectively use these tools.
  • Hiring The Right People - Keys To Increased Success
    The most effective action you can take to improve success in hiring the right people for the right jobs, particularly for leaders and emerging leaders, is to evaluate your own selection process. Find out how your organization appears from the viewpoint of candidates - you'll be amazed at what you find.
  • How To Choose Your Response - The 24 Hour Rule
    How often have you made a snap decision and lived to regret the outcome? Read on to acquire a behavior tool that can help you improve your decision making skill by choosing your response to any situation.
  • How To Gain Respect
    There's a secret to gaining respect - one that I had the good fortune to learn early in my career - and from a most improbable source. The secret to getting respect is to give respect. Read on to see how that lesson was taught to me by a very special person.
  • Increase Success In Selecting People
    Experts and successful leaders all share a little known fact about human behavior, and use it in evaluating people. They know that every one of us believes other people will act, react, understand and judge as we would - given the same circumstances.
  • Keys To Success In New Jobs
    The Five Keys - plus a Bonus Key, can help you become more successful, quicker, in a new job. The Keys are from many successful leaders. Their experiences in new jobs - and as the boss of new jobs, can help you bridge those critical first few months and add to your success.
  • Leaders Know High Expectations Lead To High Performance
    Leaders know high expectations lead to high performance. Leaders know that the more people believe in themselves, and their leaders believe in them, the more they will accomplish - at all levels.
  • Leaders Provide Advice Critical To Success - Part Four
    Certain beliefs, convictions and statements keep being repeated in our conversations and seminars and feedback sessions with both managers and leaders. Here is Part Four, dealing with advice critical to success in the areas of Leadership and Hiring and Selection.
  • Leaders Provide Advice Critical To Success - Part Three
    Certain advice, in the form of beliefs, statements and cinvictions, keep being brought up by leaders in our seminars and feedback sessions.What follows is Part Three of our series dealing with beliefs that are critical to personal and organizational success in the areas of Change, Choice, Behavior Self Responsibility and Accountability ·
  • Leaders Provide Advice On Achieving Success - Part 1
    After working with many leaders certain beliefs, statements and convictions keep being repeated in our conversations and seminars and feedback sessions. This is the first in a series of articles providing advice from leaders we have known on achieving personal and organizational success.
  • Leaders Provide Advice On How To Succeed - Part 2
    Leaders provide advice on how to succeed. Certain beliefs and advice keep being repeated in our conversations and seminars and feedback sessions with leaders What follows is Part Two in our series dealing with the issues that are critical to success. Share them with your own universe of people and be amazed at how effective they can be as a tool to begin discussions
  • Leadership Through Goal Setting - vs - Brute Force management
    Setting goals as the way to create priorities is what leaders do to maintain direction and focus. Unfortunately, many managers take a tremendous amount of potential leverage out of their organizations by not prioritizing. Many do it by using the Brute Force style of management.
  • Managing Goals - Leaders Know How To Trim The Tree
    Too many goals, too little time. Leaders know what to do about that all too common condition. Learn what trimming a tree and goal review have in common.
  • Observation - A Critical Leadership Skill
    Leaders know observation skills are critically important to success - in any dimension. They work hard to develop their own, and to identify and develop the skill in their people.
  • Personal Importance - Your Success Depends On It
    Personal Importance is critical to your succes. How often have qualified, competent people missed out because of their own feelings of not being important - of not being worthy or able to perform? Read this article to see where you are in this critical belief, and what you can do to improve how you feel about yourself and what you do in life.
  • Project Teams - How to Ensure Their Success
    Project Teams - How To Ensure Their Success By Andrew Cox To maximize the contribution of project teams, five Essentials need to be in place. The good news is that the essentials to team success don't require the expenditure of large amounts of capital or expense money, and don't require new brick and mortar.
  • Success Depends On Our Self Talk
    What we tell ourselves about ourselves – our self talk, will create success – or not. Our success depends so much on the messages we constantly send ourselves. We can be our best friends – or we can be our own worst enemies.
  • Successful Leadership - Beware The Silver Bullets
    Successful leaders know the Silver Bullet approach to management - sometimes called the Program of the Month approach, just doesn't work. Read an example of Silver Bullet thinking, the downside of Silver Bullets,and 9 questions to ask yourself about changes, initiatives or programs to ensure they meet your organization's long term needs.
  • Successfully Managing Change
    Every successful change process follows the same Four Stages, and within those Four Stages certain conditions will maximize the possibility of success. Successfully manage change in your enterprise by planning for the Four Stages and creating the conditions critical to success.
  • Ten Steps To Hiring The Right Person For The Right Job
    Hiring the right persoin for the right job is one of the biggest challenges and opportunities any organization faces. Here are Ten Steps to take to improve success in hiring and selection.
  • The Biggest Challenge To Change - The Status Quo
    The Biggest Challenge To Change - The Status Quo Creating change, accepting change, making change work, being rewarded by change - all are resisted by that condition called the Status Quo. And most of the time we don't even realize it.
  • Think Outside The Box - Cultivate Your Inner Voice
    Thinking outside the box comes in lots of different sizes - from the smallest to the really big, sweeping, high leverage things. And while the really big, important changes that occur get the most attention, and are the most sought after, the sum total of all the little changes and habits of thought that happen every day are what lead to the really big stuff. And that's where our inner voices play such a big role
  • Think Outside The Box - Take The Time To Look Up
    Think outside the box. How do I do that? I suggest you take the time to look up A personal story to illustrate my point:
  • Tools For Change - Targeted Surveys
    When faced with change of any kind, the use of Targeted Surveys can communicate the issue to the organization, involve the people impacted by the issue in feedback and design, and assure information is gained from all the people, not just the vocal 10% that may not represent the thinking of the enterprise. Here are the 9 To Do's of effective Targeted Surveys.
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