Not exact matches
In my professional life, the
people I
work with typically know better than I
do how I can be of the most value to them, so I just ask.
And, that could be anything from, are there other
people from the university that I attend who
work here, could I talk to them, to what
does it look like to change jobs in a couple years after I've been successful on my first project, to
how long
do people stay in this office?
When I tell
people that I
work remotely, and that I manage a team of remote workers from my backyard, I always get the same response: «
how did you land that gig!»
How do you empower the
people around you to
do their best
work?
«You'd be surprised
how many
people tell me, «I don't need to
work hard, I'm smart.»
The most important elements of the process don't have anything to
do with
how the coffee machine
works or where to sign up for the spin class; they have everything to
do with the company's culture, which is the hardest thing for a new
person to absorb and the hardest thing for any business to put into words.
Every time I hear
people talk about
how networking didn't
work for them, I discover it's because they have never
done a deep - dive on the relationship - building process relating to their networking.
«I don't wake up every morning and think
how I am going to revolutionize the way
people work every day.
How many
people did Apple put out of
work this week, when the tech giant announced the Apple Watch and the Apple Pay point - of - sale technology built into the new iPhone 6?
The book seeks to answer the question: If wealthy
people have the same 24 hours in a day, and
work just as hard as others,
how do they acquire such incredible wealth?
I never understand
how people function with 8,700 unread emails in their inbox but everyone has their own method and has to
do what
works for them.
The airlines we love don't win us over with
how they advertise or what they paint on their fuselages, but with what's in the hearts of the
people who
work there.
Wujec loves to engage
people and teams by having them draw
how to make toast because in
doing so, the process reveals unexpected truths about
how we can solve our biggest and most complicated
work problems.
Instead of requiring
people to
do the
work exactly
how you would have, respect and appreciate the varied styles your teams use to get to the end result.
«You've got to learn
how to recruit a team, you've got to learn
how to
work with other
people, and you've got to learn
how to get good stuff
done.»
Strive to promote flexibility not only in what your
people are
doing but also in
how they
work.
When you encourage, you don't just change
how people work.
But that doesn't mean most business leaders can't learn something valuable from the core finding of the Facebook research project, which is, «If you want to keep your
people — especially your stars — it's time to pay more attention to
how you design their
work.»
How do people typically feel when they start
working for you?
«You don't realize
how much that
works on your psyche, and then one day you wake up and you're not you anymore, and you're not the
person you've always been.»
(And of course what
people do outside of
work may not reflect
how they are to
work with.
If
people don't know the function of the business,
how could they meaningfully
work for it?
Slack recently added threaded conversations that
work like a comment on an article like the one you're reading now, and
people seem to know
how to
do it.
«He's going to have a lot of
work to convince
people that if it didn't
work over the last 15 years,
how will it
work over the next five, 10, 15 years,» says Dan Hallett, a director of Highview Asset Management.
The most effective leaders inspire
people by clearly articulating
how the
work they
do together is helping other human beings and
how each
person's individual role on the team makes a difference.
How do people who excel at
working the room begin their conversations with you?
Compliment him or her on the
work the
person does and ask
how you can help, he says.
Try and scare them when you interview them by letting them know
how few resources — in terms of money and
people — as a way to show them that they'll need to be ready to dig in and
do the
work themselves.
As I recently wrote in «The IRS Wants to Know If Your Freelancer Should Be Getting a W2,» before
working with a freelancer you want to make sure to look at a number of factors including: one) whether the
person you hire is truly a freelancer, two) whether you have financial control over the
person doing work, three) the extent of control you have over the freelancer's day and four)
how the
person's
work gets performed.
Average
person says 8 a.m. I'll say, «Okay, rather than 8 a.m., go in to
work or whatever you are
doing and wait until 10 a.m. and see
how you feel.»
One young woman who'd been an active and impressive contributor to the conversation answered: «I want
people at
work to think I'm better than I am; I don't want them to see
how I really am!»»
They go out in the field and
work with
people who want to change but don't know
how.
Think about it:
How people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get
work done and ultimately find success requires a connected professional world.
You don't have to have a creative - based business in order to appreciate the fact that Catmull just knows
how to
work better with
people, and
how to make those
people thrive.
Making the time to ask
people what they think about something, or
how to
do it, goes a long way towards building that bond between employees and employers that helps everyone get through the inevitable ups and downs of
working together.
And
how do you get
people to like you and
work with you?»
I don't care
how nice a
person someone is or
how good a job they
do, they're still
working in an environment with other nice and hard -
working people.
Most
people don't care about
how much
work you put into designing the product.
There's also
people who
work on it every day and actually, in fact, know
how to
do it.
And if banks are
doing God's
work — and «lift
people out of poverty,» as Blankfein said at the Clinton gathering last year,
how can encouraging talent to leave that
work to join the government be beneficial for humankind?
«A lot of
people don't believe a machine can produce a good cup, but once we come around and show them
how it
works and give them a sample, they are impressed.»
People get lazy when it comes to travel because any prep
work, no matter
how much time it may save in the long run, just seems like another dreary task on the to -
do list.
As
people grow and mature in their role, and their product - knowledge fully fleshes out and their workflow - knowledge is fully complete... They know
how the product
works and they know what customers are trying to
do with the product, so they can advise customers to take the best course of action.
CEO Rich Sheridan, who wrote Joy, Inc.:
How We Built a Workplace
People Love, created a shared
work process where all the programming is
done by tandems who share an open
work space.
There is a core misunderstanding about
how that system
works, which is that — let's say if you are a shop and you are selling muffins, right, you might want to target
people in a specific town who might be interested in baking or some demographic, but we don't send that information to you, we just show the message to the right
people and that's a really important, I think, common misunderstanding of
how the system
works.
In supporting our employees, I think the most important thing — and it really comes as a consolidation of many trends — is
how do you make
people's
work easier?
For example, if a
person works for a company that's recently had a big achievement, he might say, «Congrats on your company's success — I can't wait to hear
how you've
done it.»
Instead focus on the value you produce through your
work:
how your actions are important,
how you're good at what you
do, and
how you're connected to other
people.»
People are not afraid of hard
work; they are afraid of failure, and good clear communication skills ensure that leaders know not only what needs to be
done, but
how it will be achieved.
Most
people aren't going to say «Oh, then I'm not interested,» but you'll be able to tell a lot from
how they
do react: Are they really processing what you're saying or are they clinging to their blinders about your
work?