Good Morning, Resource Number Two
At breakfast with an old friend this weekend he told me about an incident in his firm where a project manager referred to one of his software developers as “Resource Number Two.” Not in the third person. Not in a written report. To his face. The manager saw nothing wrong with this; after all, people […]
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- Nov, 23, 2015
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Nov, 23, 2015
Coercion vs Persuasion
You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink; so goes the old saying, anyway. I don’t have a lot of experience with horses, so I don’t know. What I do know, though, is that when it comes to your employees, you can get them to do things because they HAVE […]
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- Nov, 20, 2015
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Mellowness
Back in 2010 a friend and I visited Portugal for a few days. One of the things he pointed out during our time in Lisbon was how laid back the Portuguese are. “Mellow” was the word he used, a word I have not heard often since, oh, 1979. But it was a fair description of […]
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- Nov, 04, 2015
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Rather Than Copying a Leadership Style, Create One
Creatives know that copying someone else’s work is uncool. It may also be illegal, but to a true Creative that is far less important than the lack of ethics displayed by a copycat. When it comes to leaders, you should not copy either, but for different reasons. When you take business classes, when you read […]
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- Oct, 30, 2015
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Freeloaders
Every now and then you will have employees who try to make a name for themselves by attaching themselves to every project in sight, but without really doing any work. Do not encourage this. Their plan is simple: they want to get their name out in front of their bosses as much as possible so […]
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- Oct, 28, 2015
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