No Best Buy Stores to Close in New Jersey Best Buy announced that of the 42 stores that they will be closing, all New Jersey store locations are safe. The Minnesota-based company announced back on March 29th that it would have to close 50 of its United States big box stores and lay off 400…
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Define Your Leadership Style and Tendencies
When we interact with someone whose leadership styles and tendencies are similar to our own, communication is relatively easy. However, when we work with people whose leadership style is different from our own, communication and cooperation can be challenging. Dale Carnegie said the most important element of working with different leadership styles is flexibility—our willingness…
Don’t Throw Away Those Business Cards Just Yet!
I read an article recently about the coming demise of perhaps the most utilized marketing tool of all time—the business card. The rationale—according to new age “techies”—is that business cards will be replaced by “bumping” smart phones for an exchange of information. That is, using the iPhone application “Bump” in a kind of fist-bump move…
The Three Safeguards in Communication
Regardless of the situation, every single time that we speak we have the possibility to say something we might regret. Although it happens to presidential candidates and to CEO’s, most of the time if we misspeak, we do it in a one-on-one situation with family, friends, or business associates. And once we realize we said…