Posts Tagged ‘high performance organization’
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog ((experiencematters.wordpress.com)), The 6 New Management Imperatives - Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a "new set of skills" for managers. These are the 6 new imperatives: Invest in culture as a corporate asset Make listening [...]
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 [...]
Book Review – 12 The Elements of Great Managing and Making These Actionable
The Gallup Organization has been publishing books on management and high performance organizations regularly for quite some time. The encouraging elements in all of them are that they are based on real data from real people about real work. I have recommended two earlier books from Gallup, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All [...]
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, [...]
Podcast – How to Hire a Part-time CFO
Five steps to hiring a part-time CFO to simplify your life. This podcast lasts for 8 minutes 49 seconds. A written format is available here.
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 should do so before reading this one. The first step in the hiring process is to define the job you want filled. What specific results should the [...]
Results Focus
Our coaching always relates to strategies and tasks that produce better results. We measure our work with clients based on these results. Clients keep working with us because of their results. Business coaching results come in three areas: Customer This means revenue, profits, and number of customers. For managers of internal [...]
