Delegate or dump? Sometimes its hard to distinguish the two. Often managers delegate the work they like the least as opposed to strategically assigning it. In doing so, they’ve dumped the problems on others and walked away – its human nature after all, to avoid doing things we dislike. But risks exist with simply passing [...]
When I say shades of grey, I’m focused on employee experience and expertise; often acquired after years of work, hence the shades of grey. I first came to the Bay Area right at the height of the dot com boom and stayed to experience most of the bust. One thing that struck me, at the [...]
Many managers I’ve worked with reside at either end of the spectrum: They are either hands-off or the micromanager. The best managers I know understand that they cannot be locked into a single position, and rather move up and down the scale as the situation requires. They know for example, that when a team is [...]
Economic signals are telling us that the worse is over and we are pulling out of the recession. Before we forget the pain, I’m curious if there was any lessons learned that we’ll take with us as the economy starts to prosper?
Make those critical connections – Get to know the people now that can help [...]
I found this post by Reid Carr on FastCompany’s website and thought it had some great ideas for maintaining and improving company morale. The link takes you to the original content. I did not alter what he said, as I really liked the approach, but the website might offer you some other good ideas as [...]
A recent post by Seth Godin complaining (very insightfully) about dashboards got me thinking because so much of what I do involves helping clients understand their performance, and lot of times that means developing dashboards. A typical scenario is that they want this tool to be the Mazerati of tracking, so they want every conceivable [...]
Feedback is essential to our development as professionals. Yet for both the givers and receivers it can be painful. For the receiver hearing their performance is less than stellar can be hard to take, and frankly is at odds with most companies rating systems of a bell curve, which by definition means that the majority [...]
I grew up in the Midwest, tornado country and we always had a plan, at school we trained by getting in the hall way, moving away from windows and making ourselves as small as possible. At home we knew where the candles, and emergency supplies were kept and the safest room in the house. Living [...]
I recently purchased a new computer, making the switch from PC to Mac based on everything I had heard coupled with the fact that when I factored software into the equation the price was compariable to what I would pay for a new PC. I was looking forward to this utopia that people who had [...]
This list of 4 tips on asking questions came from a Harvard Business School newsletter and they struck a nerve with me. Asking questions is such a powerful tool in developing ideas, and some of the best ideas come out of a dialog that starts with “This may be a stupid question, but…”
Here’s the four [...]
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