What Good General Managers Do series
Think of if this way…
Greatness of Strategy = Strategy * Execution
If execution is zero, greatness is zero.
Simply telling people what is important will cause not the organization to start doing what is important. Read More
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where your gifts and skills don’t line up with the type of skills that are valued in your environment.
You might get shut out or pushed down because of it. Read More
What Good General Managers Do series
Most strategic planning exercises are doomed from the start by being connected to the annual budget process.
The money always wins.
Strategy is creative. Financial Planning is operational. Strategic and financial planning require different skills, timelines, and different measures of success. Read More
One of the questions I get most frequently is how to get people who don’t work for you, to do work for you.
So many people are in matrixed situations, or they are a program manager over an endeavor that is dependent on people from all over the place. Read More
This is third article in my series of What Good General Managers DO.
Aritlces in the series so far:
People
Listen: Stay Connected to Reality
Process
The Gap Between Committed and Done
Failure & Motivation (today)
Profit
Communicating
Many organizations struggle to get things done, as promised, on time. Read More
Today I want to address a topic on process. But I want to re-label the word process to be “make sure to get stuff done”.
I am never a fan of process for process sake, but I am a big fan of taking the chaos and drama out of executing. Read More
Last week I kicked off a series of articles about what good general managers do.
I keep finding myself talking to CEOs who are concerned that their new general managers (also directors and VP’s) just aren’t getting that they need to be working in different way now that they are in an executive level job. Read More
I get a lot of questions from people about what it takes to be a good general manager.
So I am going to write about this over the next few weeks on this blog.
Stepping into a general manger role for the first time is a big deal because it is a very different job than you’ve had before. Read More
Last week I was the keynote speaker at an event for a services organization in an energy company.
I spoke on the topic of Adding more Value to the Business.
This is an important topic for all of us.
The bottom line here is that you can’t wait to be told what adds value, and you can’t count on your job description as written to add enough value. Read More
1. Understand what drives the business.
2. Put your work and your communications in that context.
3. This gives you a tremendous advantage. Don’t miss this.
THINK LIKE A GENERAL MANAGER
In this month’s webinar we covered the key aspects of how general managers think, and why it’s important to think like a GM, whether or not you want to be one. Read More
