Weekly Management Tip During my 40+ years of working with clients worldwide I have come to believe that there are 6 critical factors that determine employee performance and long-term organization success. There are numerous other factors and I could create a list too long for you to read but I believe that almost all of …
Weekly Management Tip One of the major challenges facing organizations today is to ensure accountability with its policies, procedures and philosophy. Over the years, I have seen numerous instances where there are rules, standards, expectations and policies that are continuously ignored, sabotaged, and/or broken for a variety of reasons. As a manager, business owner or …
Weekly Management Tips “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Over the years I have discovered that many organizations have a variety of policies, products, services, positions, techniques and even people that are what I refer to as ‘sacred cows’. In other words – …
Weekly Management Tips “Failures are not fatal unless we go to sleep with them, Edison, Marconi, Cyrus, Field, Lincoln, Grant all had their failures, but each of them kept on undaunted until he ‘won-out’.” ~ Anon There are basically two attitudes you can take as a manager, executive or business owner during a slow economy …
“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.” ~Lorraine Hansbury In the above statement, I’m not referring here to checking that your hair is in place or that your makeup is applied correctly or that your sideburns are straight or your mustache is properly trimmed. I’m asking you as a manager are you spending enough …
One of the major challenges facing organizations today is to ensure consistent accountability between employee behavior and the organization’s policies, procedures and philosophy. Over the years, I have seen numerous instances where there are rules, standards, expectations and policies that are continuously ignored, sabotaged, and/or broken for ant number of reasons. As a manager, business …
During my 35+ years of working with clients worldwide I have come to believe that there are 6 critical factors that determine employee performance and long-term organization success. There are numerous other factors. I could create a list too long for you to read but I believe that almost all of them will fall under …
Weekly Management Tips “It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.” ~ Ovid There are a number of national and international organizations that are still being run by old school managers and executives. These individuals, many of them, are locked in a style of doing business that may have worked ten or twenty years …
Weekly Management Tips “They can because they think they can.” ~ Virgil There are average companies and there are good companies. There are poor companies and then there are the great companies. Each: operates in the same economy has the same pool of potential employees develops its employees or doesn’t has competition must deal with …
Weekly Management Tips “Everybody can be great You don’t have to have a college degree to serve You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ~ Martin Luther King When was the last time you got out from behind your desk and just wandered around your department or organization with …
