You are a dynamic entrepreneur. In these years of economic crisis you started a new business. The first year was very successful for you. Your company has grown to 18 members. You took the right decision to promote an employee to a manager in your biggest 9 staff department - Customer Service department.

Peter is your best employee in that department and you promote him to Manager Customer Service.

So, a Leader has 4 managers of workshops that produce glazed tanks.  One of the workshops has significantly lower productivity.  The Leader visits the workshop Manager with the goal to find a way to improve the performance.  The Leader to the Manager:...
                                                              "What can we do to improve results?"
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When an employee makes a mistake I visit him/her to show where s/he went wrong.  S/he  denies s/he did the error.  Often s/he tries to prove that there is almost no error or the error is somewhere else.  I dump on her/him all known logic of Archimedes and Pythagoras, but the employee still does not recognize the error.

Stop.  What am I doing?

It sounds reasonably prior leading others to learn about ourselves.  Knowing our strengths and weaknesses will help us make a decision which activities must be delegated...

The test below aims at assessing our logical thinking capabilities.

20 pairs of words follow. Against each pair of words you are requested to write down the correct code.

Imagine I started a business from scratch. I worked a lot - 10-12 hours per day, 6-7 days a week. For 3-5 years the company achieved turnover of USD 5-10 000 000.  At this moment I am a successful entrepreneur.

Imagine now I have continued to work as hard as always for another 5 years.  But the turnover remains stable at the same level USD 5-10 000 000.  In this situation I should describe myself as "I was a successful entrepreneur."

Why the company has stalled?