Sense of urgency is a managerial trick
It’s usually a way for managers to essentially play Hot Potato with projects that scare them or they have no time for. Continue Reading
Goal Setting
No, not everyone on your team will be innovative. That’s OK.
Managers that I’ve worked with love to do one of two things when discussing their team and its members: Praise the hell out of them and talk about how they’re the “best team in the biz” (80 percent of the… Continue Reading
Future of Work: Turn ‘infinite’ into ‘finite’
Yesterday, I took a mid-afternoon walk to go get some hipster coffee and listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Chris Sacca, which was actually just Chris Sacca speaking by himself and answering reader-submitted questions. Sacca was recently the… Continue Reading
Poor priority management = lack of organizational trust
There’s some new research from MIT’s Sloan School of Management about senior managers within organizations and their understanding of priorities, and it’s not exactly pretty. (Here’s a summary of some of the work from Fast Company.) The participants included 11,000 senior… Continue Reading
A day-by-day guide to managing your time at work
One major thing we get wrong: work isn’t about tasks and targets. It’s about energy. There’s only a fraction of the day (honestly) that you’ll be really successful at those tasks and targets, and you need to figure out how to maximize it.… Continue Reading
Financial decisions = akin to how animals find food
Some new brain research out of Wharton (UPenn) recently, and while it’s not entirely fleshed out yet and has more potential for research options, this is an amazing section: One of the fascinating takeaways from our research is that people… Continue Reading
‘Management 101:’ Set a fire. Wait until it escalates. Resolve it. Tell everyone you put out a fire.
The headline pretty much says it all here, but I was thinking about this at the end of last week. This really is how most people manage in small, medium, and large corporations. The essential step process is: Set a… Continue Reading
A ‘heads-down’ work culture actually is not a good thing
If you lined up 100 managers at 100 different types of companies and asked them what types of employees they want under them, I’d assume more than 70 would describe some version of the classic ‘heads-down’ employee. That basically means a person… Continue Reading