Category: International College of Businessry and Managering
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A Blueprint for Difficult Financial Times
Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and this is not to be considered financial advice. Buyer beware. Mileage may vary. Past performance may have been pure luck or simply misrecorded. At ICBM we recognize and acknowledge the difficult financial times facing us all. In the past, we have limited access to the following information… Read more
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Time for a Pep Talk
Hey Humpty, if you want to make an omelet you have to crack some eggs. I know many of you are down. Maybe even out. And, times are tough. I am not here to deny that the path here has been hard – instead I’m going to lay a yellow brick road right at your… Read more
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Quiet-Quitters? It’s Time to Make Some Noise!
Unless you’re a manager that’s been living under a rock for the last year you must have read the headlines about Quiet-Quitting. In a nutshell, Quiet-Quitting is a passive-aggressive attempt by employees to reduce their workload in response to a perceived slight by management. If you pay attention to business media you would think QQ… Read more
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Shhh! I am trying to Quiet-Quit Over here
Contrary to what you might expect, here at ICBM, we are actually fans of Quiet-Quitting. This relatively new phenomenon is causing quite a stir in the corporate world. Once the dust settles, it will become evident that Quiet-Quitting is the inevitable response to several passive-aggressive practices which have been in use by managers for years.… Read more
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Meeting-nomics 305: The Phrase That Pays
Increasing TMT and expanding your influence are intimately tied, and like a Gordian knot, or the meaning of a mission statement, can’t be untied. So rather than fight it, embrace it. As you progress in your journey toward ever greater managerial excellence you might be faced with a situation where you start to lose control… Read more
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Meeting-nomics 303: Unleveling the playing field
How to put yourself back in the game. In a TMT rut? Losing the TMT battle with your peers? Here are 5 simple ways to put yourself back on top! Simply take one of your larger conference rooms out of commission and prepare to ascend the corporate ladder. How to do this? There are several… Read more
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Meeting-nomics 302: Maximizing synergies
To maximize the output of the Meet-conomy, a good manager must leverage every strategy at his or her disposal. That includes all the lessons in Meeting-nomics 101 (achieving the meeting clearing point), 201 (double booking and incomprehensibility) and what is presented here in 302: Maximizing Synergies where ever more subtle strategies must be employed to… Read more
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Meeting-nomics 201: Micro Meeting-nomics
At all times remember the basis of meeting-nomic theory is that meetings are the product, not the means, of corporate output and that in any healthy meeting-nomic system TMT (total meeting time) must increase. It has been shown that a yearly TMT rate of increase of 10% shows that managers are “doing their job” but… Read more
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Meeting-nomics 101
Total meeting time must constantly increase. To maintain managerial status quo total meeting time (TMT) must remain constant or increase. The more meetings that are held, the more meetings become the actual product. As soon as management loses sight of the point of meetings and begins to focus on the meetings themselves the battle is… Read more