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Teaching English in Japan t your employees become complacent with the way things are.What's the best way to go about teaching English in Japan? The good news is that there are quite a few. Some of them even offer you a free plane ticket!I'm probably biased here, but I'd say the best English teaching job in Japan is the Japanese Government's JET Programme. That's how I first came to Japan. It stands for "Japan Exchange and Teaching" Programme, and although you will probably be in schools teaching English for several hours a day, the main aim of the programme is to get local communities used to foreign faces. Just imagine if in your town 11. Come into work late and leave early. Take long lunches. Show your people that you’re the boss and can do whatever you want. 12. Prohibit office celebrations and parties. No birthdays, no holiday parties or decorating, no nothing. This is no place to be goofing off. There is work to do. 13. Ne Success Comes From the Inside Out, Not From the Outside In 1. Trust no one. Not your superiors and not your employees. Especially not your employees. They’re probably out to get you anyway.Whether you have been running a home based business for 5 years, for 3 weeks, or if you are still searching for the right fit, you will succeed exactly in proportion to the degree of self-esteem & self-confidence you hold, and to your willingness to play nice with others.As those of us with experience well know, there is a vast difference between working in an office environment with lots of other people around to offer stimulation and motivation, and working from home. The home environment offers many amenities - some would say too many – from the ref 2. Believe that all of your people are lazy, good-for-nothing slackers. Remind them of that frequently. 3. Get mad and shout a lot. This will reinforce to your “workers” that you mean business. 4. Never grant special favors. Having babies, being sick, taking time off to go to weddings, funerals or 50th anniversaries are just ways to get out of work. Don’t let them get away with it. 5. Try not to make decisions. Decisions will only give your boss a reason to fire you. If a decision is absolutely necessary, try to postpone it as long as possible. 6. Do not tolerate errors. Of any kind or any size. Even the smallest of errors just reinforces the fact that your people are screw-ups. Fire people for minor infractions. 7. Criticize. Never be satisfied with any of your employees’ work products. If they were trying at all, they would be doing better. 8. Refuse to listen to suggestions. Your subordinates are just trying to get you to do something that will get you into trouble. They don’t have the sense god gave a goose anyway. Your way is the right way. 9. Complain to various employees how bad the others are. Try to get them on your side so they’ll group together and force the really worthless people to leave. 10. Change your mind often. About everything – policies, procedures, work assignments. Don’t let your employees become complacent with the way things are. 11. Come into work late and leave early. Take long lunches. Show your people that you’re the boss and can do whatever you want. 12. Prohibit office celebrations and parties. No birthdays, no holiday parties or decorating, no nothing. This is no place to be goofing off. There is work to do. 13. Nev How Policies Begin – 5 Apes Story aving babies, being sick, taking time off to go to weddings, funerals or 50th anniversaries are just ways to get out of work. Don’t let them get away with it.This article has been written to provide some understanding to why we behave as we often do in organisations without understanding why we do things. How often have you had a response from someone when asked about something they do – That is just the way we do things around here, or, that is as always as it has been and you can not change it.As I understand it, the behavioural experiment performed went as this."Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, hang a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Before long an ape will go up the 5. Try not to make decisions. Decisions will only give your boss a reason to fire you. If a decision is absolutely necessary, try to postpone it as long as possible. 6. Do not tolerate errors. Of any kind or any size. Even the smallest of errors just reinforces the fact that your people are screw-ups. Fire people for minor infractions. 7. Criticize. Never be satisfied with any of your employees’ work products. If they were trying at all, they would be doing better. 8. Refuse to listen to suggestions. Your subordinates are just trying to get you to do something that will get you into trouble. They don’t have the sense god gave a goose anyway. Your way is the right way. 9. Complain to various employees how bad the others are. Try to get them on your side so they’ll group together and force the really worthless people to leave. 10. Change your mind often. About everything – policies, procedures, work assignments. Don’t let your employees become complacent with the way things are. 11. Come into work late and leave early. Take long lunches. Show your people that you’re the boss and can do whatever you want. 12. Prohibit office celebrations and parties. No birthdays, no holiday parties or decorating, no nothing. This is no place to be goofing off. There is work to do. 13. Ne Challenges for a Startup or any size. Even the smallest of errors just reinforces the fact that your people are screw-ups. Fire people for minor infractions.For any startup to be successful following key areas need to be focussed.Developing your Customer base. Few startups are established with customers in hand and few establish the company and then lookup for customers. Either way it is a challenge to acquire new customers and expand your business. Startups should come up with blue ocean strategy and make the competition irrelevant and build the customer base.Building your Brand Brand Building is the next most important thing as it gives a perception about your company. Who you are and what you 7. Criticize. Never be satisfied with any of your employees’ work products. If they were trying at all, they would be doing better. 8. Refuse to listen to suggestions. Your subordinates are just trying to get you to do something that will get you into trouble. They don’t have the sense god gave a goose anyway. Your way is the right way. 9. Complain to various employees how bad the others are. Try to get them on your side so they’ll group together and force the really worthless people to leave. 10. Change your mind often. About everything – policies, procedures, work assignments. Don’t let your employees become complacent with the way things are. 11. Come into work late and leave early. Take long lunches. Show your people that you’re the boss and can do whatever you want. 12. Prohibit office celebrations and parties. No birthdays, no holiday parties or decorating, no nothing. This is no place to be goofing off. There is work to do. 13. Ne Clearing Your Backlog Of Calls hat will get you into trouble. They don’t have the sense god gave a goose anyway. Your way is the right way.So you’re finally at the point where business is booming and you’re getting dozens of calls and emails per day from customers, potential or existing, wanting to either ask a question about your products or report a fault in one they’ve just purchased. And if they sent you an email and it wasn’t answered in 24 hours, they WILL call, adding to your ever-increasing backlog.As a good business person, you want to satisfy every client that comes to you with a query and make sure that it’s resolved quickly so that they come back for more later on.The on 9. Complain to various employees how bad the others are. Try to get them on your side so they’ll group together and force the really worthless people to leave. 10. Change your mind often. About everything – policies, procedures, work assignments. Don’t let your employees become complacent with the way things are. 11. Come into work late and leave early. Take long lunches. Show your people that you’re the boss and can do whatever you want. 12. Prohibit office celebrations and parties. No birthdays, no holiday parties or decorating, no nothing. This is no place to be goofing off. There is work to do. 13. Ne Business is About Making Money t your employees become complacent with the way things are.Ask most people why they are in business and they will give you any number of reasons. Things such as wanting to improve the lives of others; make the world a better place; provide for their family; have more free time; the list goes on and on.Fact is business is about making money, which means the bottom line is the bottom line. Many business owners, managers and sales people seem to forget this. If you don’t have a strong bottom line you cannot continue to do business for very long. And if you can’t continue to do business you cannot achieve the other 11. Come into work late and leave early. Take long lunches. Show your people that you’re the boss and can do whatever you want. 12. Prohibit office celebrations and parties. No birthdays, no holiday parties or decorating, no nothing. This is no place to be goofing off. There is work to do. 13. Never praise your people. They’ll just expect more of it. Besides, no one ever does anything that’s worth recognizing anyway. 14. Never tell any of your employees exactly what you do. They’ll use it against you. 15. Refuse to discuss the status of the company with any of your employees. Finances and future plans are none of their business. They need to focus on just their jobs. 16. Do not train your employees. Give them only the minimum information they need to do their jobs. Let them prove themselves by figuring out the details. 17. Definitely do not cross-train your people. That will only cause them to get big-headed about how much they know. Don’t give them a reason to complain about their miserable wages. 18. Give the easy jobs to the employees who always agree with you. They’ve earned it. 19. Give the really cushy jobs to the really “friendly” people – the cutest or best looking ones who aren’t afraid to show just how friendly they are. Being a boss is tough. You deserve your perks. 20. Petty cash is your discretionary lunch money. Enjoy it. 21. Cut company expenses by firing whoever you want. Demand increases in productivity from those remaining. Maybe they will eventually get the idea that they need to get to work. 22. Never show your people that you care about them. It would make you look weak and erode your status as a boss. 23. Display your power. Sit behind a big desk. Make sure all the other chairs in your off
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