Leading People

Strategic Planning and other Delusions

What Good General Managers Do series Strategy vs. Numbers Most strategic planning exercises are doomed from the start by being…

15 years ago

Shame people into doing the work

When people don't deliver on their commitments One of the questions I get most frequently is how to get people…

15 years ago

Influence Difficult People

Difficult People are Everywhere In this month’s Business Leadership Webinar we talked about how to deal with difficult people, stack…

15 years ago

Failure & Motivation: General Managers

What Good General Managers Do This is third article in my series of What Good General Managers DO. Aritlces in…

15 years ago

Good General Managers and People

Last week I kicked off a series of articles about what good general managers do. I keep finding myself talking…

15 years ago

What do good General Managers DO?

I get a lot of questions from people about what it takes to be a good general manager. So I…

15 years ago

Think Like a General Manager

Context is critical 1. Understand what drives the business. 2. Put your work and your communications in that context. 3.…

15 years ago

Shoot the Messenger

Who is helping? One of the CEO’s I am working with on a business transformation said to me about his…

15 years ago

3 Common Business Failures to Avoid

Debate or GO? or Stall? Awhile back I wrote a post about Debate Phase vs. Go Phase. These labels help…

15 years ago

Debate or GO?

Organizations waste a lot of time communicating badly. They fall into the trap of talking about things that have already…

15 years ago