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How to Stop Micromanaging and Motivate People to Top Performance
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March 21, 11:44 am
No One is Too Small to Participate
We often think that to get the “best” ideas we need to bring in Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, or Tom Peters and let them guide us.
Not that outside eyes looking in can’t bring good ideas, and today’s management gurus can certainly tout some good ideas. However, quite often the […]
February 28, 5:05 am
About once a month or so I get together with my good friend Jon Busack (pronounced boo-zak). We’ll meet for coffee and catch up on each other’s lives – the projects we’re working on, how our families are doing, etc.
One thing about Jon – He’s probably the most insightful guy I’ve ever met. A genuine […]
February 7, 1:06 pm
By Dan Bobinski
You opened your business with less than $35,000 operating capital. You have less than five employees. Some say you are crazy. I say people like you are the backbone of the country. But what you really are is a microenterprise. And the good news is that microenterprises have online communities and other resources […]
January 28, 2:57 pm
This morning I received a ‘help request’ from someone being sabotaged through workplace bullying.
The writer (let’s call her Tonya) described a manipulative peer’s behavior, and sure enough it was a bull’s eye definition of passive-aggressiveness and bullying:
“She’s a peer, but she says she should be my boss and she wants to fire me. She gets […]
January 23, 1:10 pm
Longtime readers know that I’m a fan of Gary Harpst’s work. His Six Disciplines for Excellence book made the top of my recommended reading list for 2007, and his Six Disciplines company is helping companies do what they NEED to do to achieve excellence.
So I was pretty tickled when the Six Disciplines company asked me to […]
December 24, 12:47 pm
Christmas time is a tough time for anyone to be out of work. Not only emotionally, but truth is that not a lot of businesses do any hiring in mid-t0-late December.
But — for a short time window — help is here, and it’s free. The outplacement firm of Challenger, Gray, and Christmas is providing free job search […]
November 28, 4:32 am
Think back through all your performance reviews – if you’ve ever had one at all. Most people tell me their reviews fall way short of expectations. Not in terms of what kind of marks the person received, but in terms of how incomplete the review process seems to be.
Essentially, more often than not, employees report walking away from reviews […]