Jack was a “do-as-directed” professional. He used to tell his colleagues, “I am paid to do the work and my manager is paid to think about what I should be doing”. He would never own up anything more than his own tasks and would refrain from even thinking about the overall project. Times were good […]
Joe was made responsible for getting proposal out to client. Joe blindly delegated it and instructed his team to send it to client once done. When proposal went to client, mistakes were found! When asked, Joe mentioned that he did not review the final outcome. Does accountability just mean delegating? Note: A mini saga is […]
Lets accept it – doing a good presentation is difficult. You stick to your powerpoint slides and you fail to impress. You do it without a powerpoint and you might loose the track. You take more time than scheduled and you loose respect. You speak a little more on same topic and you sound repititive. […]
Last week, I wrote about importance of building perspectives for a manager when communicating with the team. Managers have to communicate a very clear picture of where things actually stand (on project, initiatives and overall organization). Specially in difficult times, people want to know what their manager is doing, what is the actual status of […]
You were born to lead. Build a team. Create community. Guide an enterprise. Inspire by example. Have big shoulders. Make those around you better. Matter. This was so inspiring that I did not feel like writing anything more. Hat Tip to Blog Post titled “Matter” at “The Business Brickyard” blog.
For people working on projects (or any other initiative for that matter), how will they add value if they are assigned tasks without giving them a broader picture and perspective? I was recently discussing this issue with some of the senior project managers and it came out that people will only think beyond their tasks […]
I am humbled to have been referred by Nicholas Bate – who is the author of 8 management books and a blog “Business of Life + Life of Business“. He points to this blog by referring it as “A great management and leadership blog” – very inspiring. Blogging has given me so many great friends […]
I wrote earlier about the explicit and tacit value that an individual brings to the organization. But how do you do value-addition? According to me, one can add value to the organization by 1) Doing things the way they should be done and finding better ways of doing it 2) Solving critical business problems (technical […]