Management

If you think you can be a member of the leadership team by representing and defending your function, you don’t know what it means to be a member of the…

People do not like to be put in boxes, and just as important, people do not like to be in the dark, outside the door where company values and vision are shaped.…

Probably yes, but that’s likely to be a problem if there isn’t balance. Some brain scientist will speak of the five brains: Reptilian – Identifying and responding to threats Limbic…

This summer each of my grandsons wanted to spend time on the driving range with me learning the golf swing. That was great fun. Even though I’m not a professional…

This was a high-powered team successfully leading a highly valued company. But you’d never know it by their faces. I could see the rings around the blood-shot eyes, hair turning…

Maybe you’ve never been around chickens very much. This is where the term comes from. In the mid-1920’s a German author described the hierarchical structure of chickens. “Defense and aggression…

Yes, this sounds like another post I wrote recently but with a twist. Read on. I love spy novels! One of the abilities that the good spy’s (at least the ones…

Amateur stems from the Latin word amator, which means “lover,” Amateurs do what they do out of love. Love is fundamental to good leadership because leadership is all about caring.…

Ron’s Short Review: Matthew clearly helps us see how all of the number based management principles are clearly rooted in the 20th-century industrial world and measuring what has already happened…

Ron’s Short Review: In this book Roberts demonstrates how Adam Smith (our first real economist) believed there were two main issues that drive a capitalistic system, to love and to…

I’m continuing my series on an in-depth look at a wonderful little book that’s twenty years old this year. The title is Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson. You…

I’m continuing my series on an in-depth look at a wonderful little book that’s twenty years old this year.  The title is Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson.  You…