How can you make sure you are still making progress on that goal you committed to in that offsite meeting 6 months ago?
In my work with management teams helping them execute their strategy, this issue comes up over and over again. Read More
Every month I do a webinar on a topic of business leadership and personal effectiveness as part of my membership program for business leaders.
This month’s webinar was on New Product Strategies to Grow Business.
The live broadcast is always free an open to anyone. Read More
Last week in my blog I suggested you stop wasting time having status meetings.
This week I want to extend the conversation suggest you resist the urge to hide in too much complexity and detail.
The reason people and teams fall into this is because complexity can make you feel smart and safe. Read More
If you take the time to collect your team in a room together, the last thing you should do is review status.
I think this is an organizational habit that takes root when new managers have a staff meeting because they think they should, and then they are not sure what to talk about, so they ask each person to give an update about their work. Read More
Awhile back I wrote an article in my General Manager series called “Why people don’t do what you say”.
It had 10 steps for improving how you communicate with your organization.
Just as a quick summary, here are the 10 points:
1. Read More
I have had a “Comcast experience” over the past 2 weeks (photo is of their actual “finished” job) which took me about an hour to clean up.
(They actually went so far as to put in about 8 cable ties to reinforce the most tangled areas, making it impossible to even shove the pile of wires aside without cutting everything apart.) Read More
This month’s webinar was on
DEVELOPING STRATEGIC HABITS
If you missed it you can
Download the Podcast
or
Download the whole Webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
This is a good webinar to download if you find yourself being drawn into tactical or administrative work too much of the time, or if you always feel too busy to accomplish important, longer-term things. Read More
Throughout my whole career I kept hearing discussions about consensus vs. command and they always rubbed me the wrong way…
What actually works was never such a mystery to me.
The problem is that people would talk about consensus or command as the only two choices for management style. Read More
This month’s Business Leaders’ webinar was on
LEADING BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
If you missed it you can
Download the Podcast
or
Download the whole Webinar
(which includes the presentation, and useful worksheets and templates.)
(more information below)
Over the past year, my work with clients has focused me on the part of business that is about getting your organization to execute. Read More
Awhile back I wrote an article about how BMW “pseudo-service” repels customers.
For those that did not read the prior article, the gist is that as an owner of a new BMW your choice is to get free service from BMW that you dislike (because of the awful and useless, “give me a 5” survey process I described) or to get good, paid-for, service from someone else. Read More
