Do you have the data?
People often ask me if they should keep a work journal of some kind.
I was encouraged to do this early in my career — I did it for awhile.
Was it worthwhile? I wasn’t sure. Read More
Category: Leading People
When smart people disagree…
The Chasm
Sometimes even when people agree, they can’t communicate with each other.
I’ve seen this common problem play out with bosses and employees when they are both really smart, capable people, but they just don’t get each other — they drive each other crazy. Read More
Saying Thank You
I was doing a series of leadership workshops last week and one of the things we talked about was creating a thank you habit in the organization.
Create a “Thank You Habit”
What I mean by a Thank You Habit is to make it known to everyone that the organization wants to acknowledge good work. Read More
High Value Communications
Driving Action
In this month’s webinar we talked about how to optimize your communications to drive action in your organization.
HIGH VALUE COMMUNICATIONS
Listen or download the webinar to learn more.
Trust & Confidence
Useful assumptions: It’s useful to assume as a starting point, that people don’t listen to you, don’t believe you and don’t trust you. Read More
Connect the dots
A story…
Recently, I have found myself re-telling a story I read a long time ago, in a leadership book, that really stuck with me.
It was about a boy who had a summer job at a bank. I’m paraphrasing…
One time the CEO of the bank asked the boy, “So, how do you like your job”? Read More
Will Your Strategy Succeed?
Strategic Progress
In this month’s webinar we talked about the critical difference between tactical progress and strategic progress.
WILL YOUR STRATEGY SUCCEED?
Listen or download the webinar to learn more.
Your strategy will only succeed if you execute it.
We talked about 4 common things that block organizations from making strategic progress on their business, and what to do about them:
1.
Read MorePoor performance is contagious
To act or to suffer?
As managers, at some point we all
encounter an employee who frustrates us, and drains the life and energy out of the team.
When you are in this situation with someone, you know it in your heart that
you should act …
…particularly when they really annoy you … but you don’t act right away because you second guess yourself …
and you keep thinking… they really do some things very well… sometimes…
Won’t
A colleague of mine shared this decision tree with me, and since then life has been easier. Read More
5 things that block strategic progress
Good General Manager Series
The struggle
All organizations struggle at some point to put their Strategy into Action (Read: actually get done what they say they want to do).
I find that key problems of executing are common in companies of all sizes and industries — but particularly in companies that want to scale. Read More
Work remote, stay visible
Remoteness
Many people have asked me recently how to build your personal brand and get positive visibility when you work remotely and no one can see you!
Change
Organizations are changing so much and so frequently that many people have never met their boss or their peers. Read More
Why people don't do what you say
What Good General Managers Do series
Your strategy is only good if you execute it
Think of if this way…
Greatness of Strategy = Strategy * Execution
If execution is zero, greatness is zero.
ONCE is not enough…
Simply telling people what is important will cause not the organization to start doing what is important. Read More
