Posts Tagged ‘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 have recommended two earlier books from Gallup, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, First, Break All [...]
Delegation (Outsourcing) and Keeping a Focus on Strategy and Results
Yesterday I was scanning through the Tweets from my friend Bruce Peters and came across a reference to a blog posting by Bernadette Doyle, "Discern Your Strengths - Delegate The Rest". Its always good to return to these complementary concepts – strengths and delegation (outsourcing), so I read on. Ms. Doyle's concatenation of "delegation" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. This podcast is based on an earlier blog posting: "Managing for Weakness - a mis-management myth". This podcast is 7 minutes 21 seconds long. You can download a PDF file with the [...]
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 evaluation systems that focus attention on how employees should overcome their weaknesses by additional training, [...]
Seize Your Time: the breakthrough first step in time management
A breakthrough first step in time management to become a more effective manager. PODCAST The podcast is 6 minutes 14 seconds long. Transcript of the podcast (download PDF)
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 that focus attention on how employees should overcome their weaknesses by additional training, supervision [...]
