The Wise Manager
The new manager asks or tells people what to do and wonders, “Why won’t they do what I want?” Telling louder or […]
Tag: management
You Gotta Tell ‘Em
Needing to deal with poor behavior from someone (especially when it’s consistent) is actually our second problem. Our first problem is telling […]
Leadership Is Not (Really) About Getting Stuff Done
Getting angry, pushing, directing, pleading, blaming, or doing the tasks ourselves are sure signs that we have fallen into into the trap […]
Bad, Good, and Great Leaders
Bad leaders try to keep things as they always have been. They mostly push and struggle. Good leaders try to enlist others […]
Some People Just Can’t Be Told
Try as we might, some people won’t do what we need them to do. It’s not that they are bad or stupid. […]
Management vs. Leadership
Management is what we do to get people to act as we want them to in an organization. It includes the title, the position, […]
How Managers Evaluate
There is a world of difference between, “I’m not sure about him. He’s doing a bad job.” and, “That was an error. […]
Great Managers
Great managers at all levels value and build people, because everyone wins when each person on the team does well, systems, so that […]
This is What a Manager Does
What is the job of a manager? Conventional wisdom says that managers hire and fire, assign work, coordinate work across the team and […]
Cursed Human Resources
We are still cursed with the Industrial Age concept of Human Resources. Despite wonderful shifts over the past half century–created by great people […]