When to Share Bad News

Everyone has bad days. Some just last longer or happen with greater frequency. If it appears I am having a bad day I generally hope for all the coming terrible news to flood me now. Why screw up another perfectly good day? Then I can put the horrible one behind and move on.

(Great Beyond)

Success in life most often comes down to eliminating bad habits. Here are a few of them that plague business leaders: Stop paying so much attention to what your competition is doing.  Just because they are nit-wits doesn’t mean that you need to run your company like one too. Lead audaciously.

By Baskin Financial Blog: By David Baskin

No one likes a difficult conversation with the boss, but it can be a valuable tool for building a trusting relationship. Try these four steps the next time you need to share upsetting news: Describe the problem. Provide a general overview and show the specific impact it has on your work and the company’s goals. Identify your solution. Explain how you’ve already tried to solve the problem and what you’ve learned from those attempts. Recommend a specific approach, along with alternatives to give your manager options.

No one likes a difficult conversation with the boss, but it can be a valuable tool for building a trusting relationship. Try these four steps the next time you need to share upsetting news: Describe the problem. Provide a general overview and show the specific impact it has on your work and the company’s goals. Identify your solution. Explain how you’ve already tried to solve the problem and what you’ve learned from those attempts. Recommend a specific approach, along with alternatives to give your manager options.

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Having share prices in your face 24/7 is like having a giant red sign on top of your house constantly flashing the price that everyone else (on average) thinks your house is worth. Do you want grey hair?  Just go outside and watch the price on that sign as it ticks up and down by hundreds, if not thousands of pounds every day. Like the future, the news and people’s opinions, that price would move around essentially at random and often to an alarming degree. Share price gazing can be hazardous to your wealth Imagine you’re a buy-to-let landlord and you’ve picked up a nice house for £500,000 cas