How Leaders Can Get More Done Through Others: How Micromanagement Can Kill...
Join us on Monday, July 25 at 1:00 PM Mountain for the latest in our webinar series: How Leaders Can Get More Done Through Others: How Micromanagement Can Kill Productivity and Creativity If you want...
View ArticleJust Say No to Your Inner Control Freak
“Project management is God’s gift to the control freak.” — Unknown. A forceful personality can provide certain advantages in a competitive workplace, helping you work your way up the ladder more...
View ArticleNailing It: Helping Others Implement Your Strategy
“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.” — Michael Porter Your value as a leader stems largely from your role as team visionary, the person who defines the...
View ArticleManaging UP: Maximizing Efficiency for Your Boss’s Sake
“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” — David Ogilvy, British...
View Article“That’s Not My Job”: The Lamest Excuse in Business Today
“If you ever answer someone important with “That’s Not My Job,” you will be RIGHT! It won’t be your job when you’re terminated for being unimportant or useless.” — Judd Weiss, American business...
View ArticleOpen Door Or Closed? Balancing Approachability Against Authority
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” — Leonardo da Vinci. “Nothing traps you in the urgency of the moment like availability.” — Sam Raimer, Baptist pastor and blogger. Anyone in a...
View ArticleActive Alignment: Strengthening Your Team Via Goal-Setting
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich As a leader, you bear most of the responsibility for whatever your team, division, department, or organization...
View ArticleThe Evils of Micromanaging, and How to Overcome Them
For those of you who manage others, let’s begin with a quiz to do a quick check of your micromanagement tendencies. Please read through these questions carefully and answer them honestly, yes or no....
View ArticleThe Good Manager: Building Your ROI by Building Your Team’s
“Vision changes a ‘transactional manager’ into a ‘transformational leader.’ While a manager gets the job done, great leaders tap into the emotions of their employees.” — Brian Tracy, American...
View ArticleEmployee Loyalty: How to Create and Maintain a Loyal Team
“I’ll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.” —Samuel Goldwyn, American movie mogul. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, loyalty is as loyalty does. In recent years, some business...
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