Posts Tagged ‘People’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why Should You Develop a Business Plan for Going Concern, How to Do It, and How Do You Convert the Plan Into Action?
Why Should You Develop a Business Plan? For every startup the development of a business plan is a required first step. It is so obvious - business schools have course on writing the business plan and it is impossible to get funding without one. Teams coalesce around the labor. So, every startup has a business plan. For the going concern, [...]
Podcast – Early Intervention Is Key to Employee Success
Early intervention for new hires and promotions is key to success. This podcast is 4 minutes 59 seconds long. A text version is available here.
More about the High Performance Management
Key principles and practices of the high performance management flow from extensive practical work Toyota Production System (TPS) lean manufacturing, lean enterprise (all of this flowing from Toyota's fifty years of innovation) ((There really is no independent organization that represents "lean". Nevertheless, the Lean Institute is a great [...]
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 [...]
Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance
Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned This podcast is 7 minutes 24 seconds long. You can read the text here.
Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance
Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5" x 7" format - very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done by David Crenshaw (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 2008). The initial chapters take up the question of humans as multitaskers. For those who need to be reassured that [...]
Successful Intelligence – R. J. Sternberg – book review
Successful Intelligence: how practical and creative intelligence determine success in life by Robert J. Sternberg (NY: Penguin Putnam, 1997) (download a PDF of this book review whitepaper) Throughout my life I have been interested in intelligence, mine and that of others. From early years at Taft School where I was regularly described as a [...]
