‘Strength’ Archives
Podcast – Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Delegation and Outsourcing Share a Common Management Focus on What Needs To be Done, What Are the Results Required, and When?
Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Yesterday I was scanning through the Tweets from my friend Bruce Peters and came across a reference to a blog posting by Bernadette Doyle, "Discern Your Strengths - Delegate The Rest". Its always good to return to these complementary concepts – strengths and delegation (outsourcing), so I read on. Ms. Doyle's concatenation of "delegation" [...]
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
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, [...]
