F. John Reh
F. John Reh is a business management expert, with more than 30 years of experience in the field. As a writer and journalist over the past 17+ years, he has covered business management for The Balance. During his 30-year career, from project manager to vice president, he worked in the fields of engineering and construction, applied scientific research, design and architecture, e-commerce, and more.
Articles by F. John Reh
When employees are discouraged, they can be cancerous to the workplace. As their own production goes down, they will often attempt to contaminate others around them as well. Discouraged employees can be easily identified.
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To be successful, there are many skills a manager needs to master. I adapted Kammy Hatnes' pyramid structure to show the increasingly difficult management skills you must master at each level and to also display how these management skills build on each other to help you achieve success in your management career. The result is the Management Skills Pyramid.
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Some people are terrified to speak in public or in front of a group. These simple steps can help you do better at it, even if you don't like it.
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An employee who has become discouraged will not perform at the level he or she is capable of achieving. In addition, they can begin to draw others down to their level. It is important for a manager to know how to recognize a discouraged employee and
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In a poor economy, employees are reluctant to give up their jobs because they worry more about finding a new one. However, this does not mean that you can just assume they will stay regardless of what you do. Nor does it mean you don't need to recogn
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We spend too much of our day trying to cram more into it. We adopted the computer term multi-tasking and tried to apply it to our own daily activities as another step in our quest to get more done. The problem is that multi-tasking doesn't work.
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Many times what your employees do not say is as important as what they do say. A manager has to develop the ability to listen to what employees are not saying and dig through that to get to the truth. Otherwise you will not be an effective leader.
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With the economy nearing the bottom and trying to recover, many businesses are slower than they would normally be. The reduction in customers has forced many businesses to reduce staff. Many of the remaining staff feel overworked and would like to co
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As we struggle through these difficult economic times, there are two things I want to share with you that can help you not just survive, but get a leg up on your competition. Those two things are...
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The purpose of business writing is to convey information to someone else or to request information from them. To be effective writing for business, you must be complete, concise, and accurate.
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Many managers believe that their job is to resolve problems that arise. While that is true, it is only the lesser part of the job. More importantly, a manager's job is to prevent problems.
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In Management 101 we covered the four principal parts of management: plan, execute, monitor, and adjust. It is important to remember that all four are essential. You will never make it to the other three if you get hung up on the first one. While planning is important, you have to get beyond that and get the work done. Analysis paralysis can be the death of any organization.
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In 1906, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto created a mathematical formula to describe the unequal distribution of wealth in his country, observing that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the wealth. In the late 1940s, Dr. Joseph M.
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Work can be a stressful place, wherever you earn your living, whether in an office, a factory, or a school. Some stress is good. It motivates us and makes us stronger. Too much stress is bad. It makes us irrational and it can, quite literally, kill us.
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The problem here is not that your desk is messy. The problem is that important stuff gets lost. It either gets buried by new material coming in, or it is in the new material, but is not noticed.
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