Posts Tagged ‘performance’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Too Much Information – learn to control those interruptors
A continuing hot topic here is the surge of interruptions that consume our work day (and evenings, too). I have talked about this earlier in these postings, Seize Your Time - gaining control over Too Much Information and Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance Many people see their emails, instant messaging, [...]
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 [...]
You Can Learn to Be a More Effective Manager
You Can 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 be an effective manager is not possible. And, much confusion is sown by debates of "leaders" versus "managers". Much is known about what [...]
