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- Managing Oneself
- The Idea in Brief We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition, drive, and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession--regardless of where you started out. But...
- Articles 2008-04-14
- Fear Vs Courage: It's Your Choice
- Everyone moves Fear from the back of their minds to the front of their minds by shifting their concentration away from their own courage, and choosing instead to focus on that which frightens one. Not only does that action change Fear's location, but through the process of concentration, it means...
- White papers
- Motivational Speakers in the Public Eye
- Inner strength helps an accomplished motivational speaker deliver groundbreaking speeches in the public eye. A motivational speaker consists of expert men and women who speak publicly, in classrooms, in office, etc. The group of facilitators often trains others how to find solutions to their problems. Motivational speakers use keynotes at...
- White papers
- Leila's House of Corrections: Managing Strengths
- Do you find yourself pointing out the things that your employees do wrong instead of focusing on what they're doing right? Find out how managing strengths instead of weaknesses can make you a more effective manager.
- Videos 2007-12-20
- Product Management As A Counterbalance
- The ideal company grows in such a way that it contains a balance of all the various strengths it needs: marketing, sales, technical knowledge, customer service, and management. Each function, such as Marketing, has its inherent strengths and weaknesses. One function's weaknesses are balanced out by strengths from other functions....
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Numerical Simulations of High Strength Steel Box-Shaped Columns
- An experimental research project was conducted to evaluate the compression stability of high strength steel sections. To further study, the structural behavior of the columns thoroughly, finite element analyses were performed using the commercial finite element package ABAQUS. This report presents a finite element analysis of the post-buckling behavior of...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Size Effect on Bond Strength of Deformed Bars
- There is a current interest in using large bars as reinforcement in seismically resistant structures. While a large amount of experimental and analytical work has been performed to study the size-effect on the shear strength and flexural strength of reinforced concrete members less attention has been devoted to the size...
- White papers 2004-05-18
- Strengths-Based Business Process Management
- Business Process managers face complex, continually morphing business environments that require great insight and personal resourcefulness. Time and resources are too scarce to allow the lengthy and costly process of repairing our weaknesses. Therefore, you must learn to rapidly and accurately deploy people's strengths by applying the most effective leading...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Strengths-Based Development in Practice
- What is strengths-based development, and what scientific evidence underpins its practice? To answer these questions, decades of strengths research and theory are reviewed and summarized. The impacts of several strengths-based developmental interventions from education, healthcare, faith communities, and business are reviewed. Relationships between strengths-based development and employee engagement, hope, subjective...
- White papers 2003-11-03
- Renewing Strength: Corporate Culture Revisited
- In this paper, the management of corporate culture is explored through a series of reflections upon literature that has fashioned and addressed this field. Specifically, the paper considers the motivation, key elements and continuing relevance of the critique made in "Strength is Ignorance; Slavery is Freedom" where, by pointing to...
- White papers 2003-10-27
- High Strength 5-7/8-in. Drillpipe
- New developments in drilling tubulars are rapidly evolving and represents enabling technology for drilling deeper, longer-reach wells more cost-effectively. The full length paper describes field performance of high-strength, high toughness 5 7/8-in. drillpipe as well as provides a statistical look at high strength drillpipe grades. Application specific landing-string designs also...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Compression Tests of Cold-Reduced High Strength Steel Channel Columns Failing in the Distortional Mode
- This report describes a series of compression tests performed on lipped channel section columns fabricated from cold-reduced high strength steel of thickness 0.42 mm with nominal yield stress 550 MPa. A range of lengths of lipped channels with intermediate stiffeners in the web and the flanges were tested between fixed...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Aggressive Leadership When Does Strength Become Weakness?
- Is aggressiveness in a leader good or bad? The answer is – both. Considered a strength, when associated with a drive for results, a willingness to take risks, and the pursuit of new business, aggressiveness becomes a weakness when it erodes interpersonal relationships. Indeed, in today's competitive business climate where...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Family Firm as a Foundation of Our Free Society: Strengths and Opportunities
- Family firms are defined broadly and represent over 90 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. The ability of a society to support the formation of new, small, family-owned and operated firms provides flexibility and strength. The public perception of family firms is discussed, as are the social and economic...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Effective Managers Pay Attention To Strengths
- Why are employees sent to training sessions? Why do they get coaching? What do 'areas of development' in appraisals usually refer to? Exactly, weaknesses and shortcomings! For much too long HR professionals, managers and employees have had an almost obsessive fixation on repairing weaknesses. What does this lead to? It...
- Case studies 2002-10-07
- Strength and Behavior of Hybrid Diaphragms
- Advantages of diaphragms using glass fiber-reinforced polymer GFRP panels in conjunction with plywood panels as sheathing hybrid diaphragms are presented in this paper. The strength and behavior of individual connections between GFRP sheathing panels and wood framing are determined through coupon testing. Coupon test results indicate that GFRP sheathing-to-framing connections...
- White papers 2002-09-23
- Member Strength by Inelastic Lateral Buckling
- This paper develops a simple advanced method of designing steel members against out-of-plane failure, in which reduced elastic moduli are used in an out-of-plane buckling analysis to model the effects of high moment, residual stresses, and geometrical imperfections on yielding. The strengths predicted for simply supported beams in uniform bending...
- White papers 2002-09-01
- Rehabilitation of Wood Diaphragms With Fiberglass Panels
- This paper presents the potential of rehabilitated wood diaphragms using fiberglass sheathing. The strength and behavior of individual connections between fiberglass sheathing panels and wood framing is determined; the results indicate that these connections have significant increases in strength, stiffness, and ductibility. The strength and behavior of rehabilitated wood diaphragms...
- White papers 2000-12-28
Additional Resources
- The case of the pregnant employee: Ember's services with a consultancy was terminated after she became pregnant. She felt that the firm was unsympathetic towards its employees and fired them to avoid paying for their maternity leave
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN EMBER Seet, 27, joined Big Four Consultancy as an auditor, she was very happy in her work as the management was pro-family and the staff members worked as one happy family. During the employment interview with the managing partner, Lim Ooi Keat, 48,...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Transition coaching helps ensure success for global assignments: executives are challenged to rapidly adjust their leadership styles and family life to a global environment and new cultures. This article explains how transition coaching can improve assignment success rates, return on investment, employee satisfaction and retention, and contribute to smoother repatriation
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE BEST approach for corporations supporting executives on global assignments of all types is to address both the shift from one culture to another on long-term assignments and train everyone at a managerial level in an open-minded, culturally respectful mindset that values diversity. Executives...
- Articles 2008-12-01
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