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The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments

Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog[[1]], 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 … Continue reading

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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”[[1]] . Their most recent email was “Management Intelligence: A proven checklist for business success”. Here is the checklist they provided: “DO YOU… IMPROVE basic, measured … Continue reading

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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 … 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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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.

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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

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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: Customers This … Continue reading

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