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Tag Archives: strength
Podcast – Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Delegation and Outsourcing Share a Common Management Focus on What Needs To be Done, What Are the Results Required, and When?
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
Posted in Book Reviews, Business structure, Functional Skills, People, Quality System
Tagged 12 The Elements of Great Managing, baldrige national quality program, EFQM, high performance organization, human resources, iso 9000 standards, James K. harter, Lean, lean principles and practices, People, Rodd Wagner, strength
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Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Delegation and outsourcing share many management requirements. And they illustrate the overlap between the personal and organization spheres. Both benefit from a more nuanced use of the general management maxim, “Build on Your Strengths”. Both require a substantial understanding of what needs to be done, how it should be done, the results required, and the needed timelines. And, finally, both require ongoing management involvement to assure that those responsible for the tasks or functions, whether individuals or vendors, succeed. Continue reading
More about the High Performance Management
Key principles and practices of 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)[[1]], the US-based Baldrige National Quality Program “Criteria for Performance … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, baldrige national quality program, customers, EFQM, Fact-based, high performance, iso 9000 standards, lean enterprise, lean manufacturing, management, People, performance, performance excellence, personnel, Productivity, responsibility, results, strength
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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 … Continue reading
Podcast: Managing for Weakness – a mis-management myth
Shifting your focus from weaknesses to strengths is a powerful step towards being personally more effective and building a more effective organization.
Posted in Change Management, People, Podcasts
Tagged Debunked, Drucker, employee, management, mentoring, People, personnel, Podcasts, Podcasts, responsibility, results, strength, supervision, weakness
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Managing for Weakness – a mis-management myth
The Myth Managers spend a lot of time worrying about the weaknesses of their employees. “If only I could get her to perform better we would have a really great team.” And countless more along that line. Companies have performance … Continue reading
Posted in Change Management, People
Tagged Debunked, Drucker, employee, management, mentoring, People, personnel, responsibility, results, strength, supervision, weakness
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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
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Posted in Podcasts, Productivity
Tagged effective manager, management skills, opportunities, Productivity, results, seize time, strength
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Managing for Weakness – a mis-management myth
Managers spend a lot of time worrying about the weaknesses of their employees. “If only I could get her to perform better we would have a really great team.” And countless more along that line. Companies have performance evaluation systems … Continue reading