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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

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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

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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[[1]] No Significant Differences between Stars … Continue reading

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You Can Learn to Be a More Effective Manager

Can You Learn To Be A More Effective Manager? There are many who think that being an effective manager is a set of skills one is born with. Great managers are seen by this view as near super-heroes. Learning to … Continue reading

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Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information – Podcast

Seize time of your own by gaining control over Too Much Information.

The podcast is 5 minutes 10 seconds long. This is a podcast based on an earlier blog entry of the same title.

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Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information

I have written a number of other postings about time management.  I always start off with the true, but worn, observation that time is the one element of business (life, too) that can not be purchased, borrowed, or inventoried. It … Continue reading

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Seize Your Time: the breakthrough first step in time management

A breakthrough first step in time management to become a more effective manager. PODCAST

The podcast is 6 minutes 14 seconds long. Transcript of the podcast (download PDF)

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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.

The podcast is 6 minutes 34 seconds long.

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Building a Positive Culture – the no jerk zone

A very common question from managers is, “How do I build a positive, supportive, productive culture in my company?” This seems like a very abstract objective until you face up to some of the negative behaviors that can be found … Continue reading

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