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Tag Archives: delegation
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
Delegation and outsourcing share many management requirements. And they illustrate the overlap between the personal and organization spheres. Both benefit from a more nuanced use of the general management maxim, “Build on Your Strengths”. Both require a substantial understanding of what needs to be done, how it should be done, the results required, and the needed timelines. And, finally, both require ongoing management involvement to assure that those responsible for the tasks or functions, whether individuals or vendors, succeed. Continue reading
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
Posted in Change Management, Integrity, Operations, People, Podcasts, Productivity, Strength
Tagged Coaching, culture, delegation, Drucker, effective manager, employee, fear, human resources, management skills, participation, People, performance, personnel, pruning, responsibility, results, strategies, Time, time management, training
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management, Integrity, Operations, People, Productivity, Strength
Tagged Coaching, culture, delegation, Drucker, effective manager, employee, fear, human resources, management skills, participation, People, performance, personnel, pruning, responsibility, results, strategies, Time, time management, training
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Podcast – How to Hire a Part-time CFO
Five steps to hiring a part-time CFO to simplify your life.
Posted in Financial Management, People, Podcasts
Tagged accounting systems, actionable, balance sheet, Cash, cash flow analysis, cash flow projection, cash flow statement, CFO, chief financial officer, delegation, Financial Management, financial statements, high performance organization, keeping score, management infrastructure, performance, results
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How to Hire a Part-time CFO
In my earlier article, Seven Reasons to Add a CFO – part-time or full – to Your Team, I discussed the reasons to add a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to your team. If you have not read that article you … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Management, People
Tagged accounting systems, actionable, balance sheet, Cash, cash flow analysis, cash flow projection, cash flow statement, CFO, chief financial officer, delegation, Financial Management, financial statements, high performance organization, keeping score, management infrastructure, performance, results
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Managers – Don’t Answer That Question!
The miraculous practice of not answering subordinates’ questions. A counter-intuitive strategy for high performance, yours and theirs.
Managers: Don’t Answer That Question! – part two
In the previous posting, I wrote about how managers are chronically undermining whatever formal delegation systems are in place and enabling dependency all around them. One of the reasons managers answer so many questions from their staff and others in … Continue reading
Posted in People
Tagged boundaries, delegation, dependency, discussion, Don't Answer, problems, Question, questions, responsibility, solving problems, taking responsibility
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Managers: Don’t Answer That Question! – part one
If most managers could listen to themselves for just a few hours, they would discover that they are chronically undermining whatever formal delegation systems are in place and enabling dependency all around them. How is this happening? Just listen and … Continue reading
Posted in People
Tagged delegation, dependency, Don't Answer, People, responsibility, Thinking
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