Without effective managers, the organizational vision will never be achieved. In my articles, I discuss methods you can use to organize, direct, plan, and control work efforts to get the results you need. There’s something here for all management levels!
Generational personality comes from events that a generation of people experience as they are growing up in a certain point in time in American history. These events shape the values of that generation which they later bring to the workplace. The core values of Baby Boomers include optimism, team orientation, personal gratification, health and wellness, personal [...]
Note: Shawn Greene asked me to address the topic of Gen Y team members working for Baby Boomer managers. As she mentioned, there’s a lot on the web about what Baby Boomers should do for this relationship but not much about what Gen Y should do. Shawn is the founder of Savage & Greene, a professional [...]
When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur. – Robert Rosenthal and Elisha Babad Employees generally rise to our expectations of them. This is known as the self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion Effect. It’s true because we treat people a certain way [...]
With this post, I conclude my look back on the body of work for Management is a Journey in 2011. Previously, I identified the reader’s top 5 blog posts and their top 5 video posts. Today, I identify my top 5 posts for several of the categories that I regularly feature. Although I am not [...]
Managing Right for the First Time is an instructive overview of what it takes to be a new manager in practice–not theory. It is a how-to guide for success for the first-time manager. Rockbench Publishing contacted me and asked if I would do a review of David Baker’s book for first time managers, Managing Right [...]
If you’re not watching the new singing talent show, the X Factor, then you missed the huge controversy that erupted last week. Twitter went ballistic as viewers tweeted their disagreement over the elimination of the talented and old-beyond-her-13-years contestant Rachel Crow. Many focused their anger on judge, entertainer Nicole Scherzinger, who refused to make a [...]
In my coaching and management development work, there are back stories that come from my real world business experiences that serve as the foundation for how I work with my clients. The same is true with information that I share on this blog. Yesterday, I discussed Five Ways that Employees Both Get Mad and Get [...]
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