Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Success Is Not Final
Starting at a young age, we are led to believe that life is fairly linear. You go to school, then you specialize your field of study, then you start working, then you get promoted, then you retire and start playing bridge. At some point, we start to suspect this is not entirely true… The way…
Read MoreHow To Write Your Meeting Agenda
What are meetings? Meetings are about multiple people contributing to an idea, a question, or a decision. Once you have determined your meeting topic and structure, you get everyone to the table… and then what? How do you make sure the conversation stays on topic, and that everybody is able to share new ideas? Enter:…
Read MoreWhat is a meeting
I would never write about what a thing is not, without clarifying what the thing is. Meetings are where information goes to grow. Bringing two or more minds together is about producing a new idea that one mind on its own would not be able to create. At the end of every meeting, each participant…
Read MoreWhat is (not) a meeting
Meetings: you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them, and you can barely live through most of them. It saddens me that meetings have such a bad reputation these days, because they should be one of your most effective business tools. But meetings have been abused and overused for so long. There has…
Read MoreDecisions, Decisions, Decisions
“Decision Making”, “Problem Solving”, “Innovation” … We all hear these words in our business every day. But what does it all mean? And how do they fit together? These are all about answering the question: “what should we do next”. And the title to this post is no accident: when it comes to decisions in…
Read MoreWhen People Are The Problem
When I write about your team and employees, I talk about them as one of your greatest assets, and I focus on how to set them up for success. But that is not always how it goes, and I recently had a question from a concerned client asking what to do when an employee just,…
Read MoreMake Change Easy
I was once talking to a friend who worked in a major investment bank and I mentioned that I had just had a lunch meeting with their Head of Change Management. She thought for a second, and then shook her head and said “we don’t have that position”. (To this day I don’t know why…
Read MoreBusiness Values: Management Starts Before You Hire
It is the eternal dilemma of the manager or business owner: how to manage people with inspiration, leadership, and motivation, still maintaining a results-driven approach? Of course you want to nurture your team, let people develop their strengths, create a job they will enjoy, and more. But not to the detriment of meeting targets. How…
Read MorePassion Needs Action
It is helpful, every now and then, to get a little bit philosophical. Last week’s look at passion was a chance to remind yourself that working through the challenges and successes of running a business is part of the fun. Or “fun”. It does not, however, stop there. Passion, to have impact, requires action. And…
Read MoreFor Love of the Game
This weekend we will see the opening of the FIFA Women’s World Cup; that is the soccer world cup of women’s national teams. You may already be familiar with my soccer/business analogy, and how a well-run business also has a front office, a midfield, and a defense. Women’s soccer specifically brings us another analogy about…
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