Archives for the 'Management' Category
Tips for the Innovative Leader [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
InnovationTools - Enterprise innovation articles
Ten top tips for the innovative leader
By Paul Sloane
1. Have a vision for change
You cannot expect your team to be innovative if they do not know the direction in which they are headed. Innovation has to have a purpose. It is up to the leader to set the course and [...]
Managing your time in chuncks [Hack Your Day]
One of the main reasons people have a never ending, never completed to do list is that they simply create the list, and either don’t prioritize it, or don’t make a conscientious effort after that to get stuff done. Creating the list is only solving part of the problem, you need to productively handle that [...]
Ask the Reader: Your Personal Mission Statement? [Getting Things Done]
Getting Things Done is an excellent method for self management. However, most people argue that its bottom-up approach leaves much to be desired when it comes to top-down aspects of self management, like living according to your purpose, dream, vision, values, principles, et cetera. I don’t fully agree with this assessment of GTD but I’ll [...]
The Manager as Decision-Maker [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
I have a guest-post up at Slacker Manager today, check it out. [link]
Being a successful manager depends on taking responsibility as a leader, and one of the duties of a leader is to make decisions. Making good decisions can influence morale, for good or ill. Your decisions can solve or create problems. Some days all [...]
Adding value to others: Remain calm in a crisis [experiments in effectiveness]
Always on the lookout for ways I can actively add value to other people, I re-discovered one yesterday that really makes a difference. It is simple in concept but may be difficult in practice. Drum roll please…
Remain calm in a crisis…even if you are freaking out inside.
On countless occasions I have prevented a crisis from [...]
The Difference Between Managing and Leading People [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Source: nickobec
Some time ago, I remember going to a kickoff meeting for a very high profile project that required different departments in the company to cooperate and work together. Each department had their own agenda and wanted to steer the project towards a direction that benefit them the most, and there were a [...]
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - Book Review [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
I have to admit that I am a big fan of the writings of John C. Maxwell, so when the 10th Anniversary Edition of his book “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” came in the mail for a review, I was thrilled.
There is so much information in this book that I really cannot do it [...]
SMART Quarterly Objectives [HD BizBlog 1.2]
I have been sitting on this link to Genuine Curiosity for a while, waiting to complete my own Quarterly Review and goal-setting. Dwayne Melancon has written a concise and very useful post on utilizing the principles of Management by Objective for setting quarterly objectives. Melancon describes the five steps in the SMART analysis:
Specific - make [...]
“Seven C’s†of Productive Leadership [HD BizBlog 1.2]
In any sort of group, whether it is a team for your work, or a social organization, there is always someone who exibits a set of characteristics that bring the members of the group together. These qualities can make or break a team effort, turning the potential productivity into successful achievement.
Develop the “Seven C’s” in [...]
Seven Behaviors that Can Make You a Leader [HD BizBlog 1.2]
You can manage a process, you can’t manage people
A big mistake that many new managers (and some experienced ones!) make is to think that the group of people that they are now in charge of need to be managed. I’ve got news - a manager is in charge of the processes and actions that their [...]