by Bart Gragg
When a person moves from labor into management they enter a whole new realm of communication, including vocabulary.
Quite often I hear them talk about and ridicule ‘biz-speak’ or ‘corporate-speak’. It’s not that they cannot grasp these concepts, it’s just that they have never experienced them. Some of them are useless to the blue collar manager, others you will want them to understand. Before you use words, phrases and acronyms be sure your audience understands them.
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by Bart Gragg
When The New Blue Collar Manager moves from the field to the office he encounters several psychological reactions, chief among them scarcity.
From wide open spaces, outside with the horizon in view, inside a large warehouse, open yards, hot and cold, freedom, ah yes, living the great outdoors life! Then reality hits like a…
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