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three things you need to succeed
There are three aspects to performance that everything else hangs on. Without them you can function, but if you want to achieve anything specific you need all three. Read more…
Indignation plays no part in objectivity.
This was something that came to me when reviewing the notes from a mentoring session last week where we had been working on dealing with unwelcome feedback. Read more…
feeling the force
Last week I talked about celebrating mistakes, and that was still fresh in mind when I read something on social media about trusting your instincts and that makes a nice connection. Read more…
why not celebrate your failures?
It is always great to talk about your successes, But for a few months now I have been writing about projects where have had problems, where we made mistakes, didn’t cover all of the angles, made assumptions or maybe took our eye off the ball types of scenario. Read more…
back to the floor over the pond
My passion for going back to the floor has been covered here before, but over the last month I have been able to experience a little of it during my travels across the pond. Read more…
musings on crisis management and the Ebola virus in the USA
I have been following the Ebola issue rather closely, or should I say it has been following me for here in the USA you can’t escape coverage of it. Read more…
if your behaviour is right you don’t need rules
In the days when I ran Facilities Management operations one of my concerns was that we should not move into jobsworth territory. This can sometimes be hard to avoid because FM is often placed in the role of enforcing corporate policy, and this is a grey area where right and wrong meet the rules. Read more…
let’s outlaw management speak
Following on from last week and some of the things I mentioned on meetings another aspect jarred with me the other day; management speak. Read more…
meetings; what a waste of time
Is that how you feel about meetings? It certainly reflected my view for much of my management time and influenced the way that I ran meetings myself. And whilst much of the fault lies with the participants, the real blame for a bad meeting lies with the person chairing. Read more…
how to influence, or even join, the top team
In many of the business specialisms we talk about improving our influence in the boardroom; we want to have that presence amongst the movers and shakers and have a place at the top table, but how do we get there? Read more…
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