At the outset of your journey to create a great workplace, it is important to keep remembering that building a culture is less about what you do, and more about how you do it. Continually strive to improve the process by which you communicate, train people, or pay people, for instance. The things you are already doing…
admin by February 11, 2012
Micromanagement usually refers to inappropriately close observation and control of a subordinate’s work by a manager. This interpretation derives chiefly from the prefix micro, which means “small” in Greek. In this context, small refers to overemphasis on the little details of employees’ work, by implication at the expense of the bigger picture. Micromanagers simply have…
admin by February 4, 2012
Reviews are already trickling in for our latest release – from management guru Gary Hamel, What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation.
Hamel begins What Matters Now with the claim that “This is not a book about one thing. It’s not a 300-page dissertation on leadership, teams, or…
jray by November 30, 2011
Gary Hamel has been called the world’s “most influential business thinker” (Wall Street Journal) and “leading expert on business strategy” (Fortune). In this just-released video he introduces his forthcoming book What Matters Now.
admin by November 21, 2011
There are two different ways to use language. The first is descriptive – using language to depict or represent things as they are or have been. Descriptive language is useful and important – try getting around New York City without a map, or ordering dinner without a menu. But descriptive language has its limits – you can’t create…
admin by November 15, 2011
What is Radical Management anyway? Listen and learn.
Jb denning leadersguide by JosseyBassBusiness
admin by November 15, 2011
Ed Lawler and Chris Worley discuss what changes need to be made in the way corporations manage today.
Jb lawler worley management reset by JosseyBassBusiness
We are extremely excited about today’s Book of the Week feature. In stores now, TouchPoints is by authors Doug Conant (CEO of Campbell Soup Company) and Mette Norgaard. It’s true, most leaders feel the inevitable interruptions in their jam-packed days are troublesome. But in TouchPoints, Conant and Norgaard argue that these—and every point of…
