‘Change Management’ Archives
Proven Checklist for Business Success – How Do You Put Them Into Action?
I receive a regular email titled, "Management Intelligence...... from Edward de Bono and Robert Heller" ((http://www.thinkingmanagers.com/)) . Their most recent email was "Management Intelligence: A proven checklist for business success". Here is the checklist they provided: "DO YOU... IMPROVE basic, measured efficiencies [...]
Podcast – Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Be a More Effective Manager - stop answering those questions, seize your time, and it's your fault
TED Talk by Tim Brown of IDEO – Why Design Is Big Again
I have not read Tim Brown's book Change By Design, but this TED talk strikes me as very valuable in itself. I look forward to reading the book which has just been published. The focus on involving end users, rapid prototyping, systems thinking resonates for me. Lean practitioners will find much in common here. It is great to hear a designer talk [...]
Three Counter-Intuitive Steps to Becoming a More Effective Manager
Become a More Effective Manager - Three Counter-Intuitive Steps In the world of planning and strategy, there is a truism that too much planning, too much detail, too much analysis, leads to inaction, to a loss of opportunity. Along the same line of observation, in the world of learning to becoming a more effective manager, there can be too [...]
Learning To Be Effective – comments on Kelley’s How To Be a Star At Work
Learning to be an effective manager is almost entirely a self-guided learning enterprise. Almost no business schools even approach the topic despite the hundreds of courses they offer on almost every functional aspect of management ((see Henry Mintzberg, Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development, [...]
Managing Key Personnel – Do What Is Inevitable – evasion and self-deception will not work
Recently I was speaking with the owner of a financial services firm. She has 15 people in her organization which is now almost 18 years old. By any measure a successful firm. She told me about one person who has been with the firm for eight years. The owner described this person as the most professional and reliable person in the organization. [...]
Podcast – What If Agreements – get them in place now, before a what if occurs
Put your Founders' Agreement in place before the inevitable business conflicts arise. This podcast is 2 minutes 51 seconds long. The text is available here.
What If Agreements – get them in place now, before a what if occurs
Just this morning I heard another tale of woe from a business owner who is now entering into legal disputes because a partner is getting divorced. The business is ten years old, healthy, in fact, holds a strong position in a niche market. But, now the business will be sold or broken into pieces. Several lawyers are also enjoying a feast of [...]
Hiding Innovations from Customers
Over the Thanksgiving holiday I learned something quite startling. The age-old problem of rolls of aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and other rolled goods jumping out of the box when you are dispensing them was actually solved years ago by a clever packaging engineer. My sister-in-law, Meredith Morgan, an award winning chemistry teacher at [...]
Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5" x 7" format - very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done by David Crenshaw (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 2008). The initial chapters take up the question of humans as multitaskers. For those who need to be reassured that [...]
