How to Deliver more Results by Coaching Others

Management’s greatest challenge is delivering results through others. Average managers manage processes; great managers manage people. You’ll go further if you spend less time focused on what you want and more time focusing… Continue reading

The 40 Hats all Managers Wear – Plus One

Effective managers control chaos and deliver value at the same time. Managing is the great opportunity and challenge in all organizations. Fundamentally, managers get things done. The more effective they are the more… Continue reading

Four Surprising Strategies that get You Promoted

#1. Prepare your replacement: Work yourself out of a job before working into one. Train and enable your replacement so your transition upward is an easy choice. The more essential you are the… Continue reading

How to get others to appreciate your great ideas?

Being supportive means going-with rather than going-against. I was having coffee with a few local business men when I realized again that going against can be annoying. A negative listening habit: When you… Continue reading

“Too Good to be Promoted” is Bull Crap

“The boss says you’re too important to be promoted.” Don’t believe it. That’s selfish bull crap. Some bosses promise promotions in order to appease you. They are lying manipulators. Their goal is to… Continue reading

How to Get the Most From Conflict

Susan Shearouse lists five sources of conflict in her book, “Conflict 101.” Information conflicts are disagreements about facts or data. Interest conflicts center on underlying concerns, desires, and needs. In order to solve… Continue reading