Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Management”
Social media is the most important communication and collaboration tool since the smoke signal.
The organization development world has been invaded by social media. The organization development profession is in a, social media, world of trouble because social media delivers all the intended qualities of OD, but more organic, more genuine, and more impressive community results than OD has ever been accepted to do.
When evaluating social media, it is time to move beyond fight, flight, or friend.
An impact analysis is an early-phase assessment to identify all stakeholders, their needs, their awareness, and their insight into the project – these people are not only sponsors and customers, but the people you want to invite people into the change. Involvement impacts success.
Just like a pebble tossed into a pond, projects cause ripples that carry beyond the initial splash. Projects sponsors who fail to link the change a project has to people, process, and technology risk project success and project adoption.
To run a team, manage a group, or lead an organization means you line people up yell, “ready, steady, go” and we folk hum along without need, guidance, motivation, communication, or care for anyone but the organization.
The reason a professional might call for an organization intervention comes from the feeling of organization sabotage.
Something is wrong.
Someones needs help.
We need to intervene.
The key for organizations to grow and to thrive relies they ability to scope, manage, and deliver projects. How you and your …
You commonly hear an equity firm or venture capital partner claim to invest in the people. Well, when it comes to costs, …
From the weekly, always insightful, Boston Globe Ideas Section, I give you this week’s UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE [their capitalization, not mine]. This section usually …
To deliver what someone expects, when someone expects, and the price someone agrees to requires an ability to define scope.
When a project fails, resources are lost and organization pressure increases. The more projects that fail the more resistant people are to associate with, work on, or fund new projects.
This is a first in a series of scope and project management blogs and templates to improve project delivery with a set of tools and principles to understand and manage project scope, from impact assessment through stakeholder communication.
This morning I read something that made me hold my, very hot, coffee, in my mouth, far longer than intended to process the Laura …
My 11-odd-years in business and talent management consulting, the other nine years in marketing, have shown a few disturbing trends that …
Every person connected to your organization is in sales and marketing. Each interaction anyone connected to your company, your government agency, …
Free time, spare time, where to find time.
For those who feel they have no spare time: Wikipedia articles represent around 100 million hours of human labor.
100 million hours!
Where do people find that time for a thankless, unpaid endeavor? Motivation.
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal presented More Workers Start to Quit. Workers voluntarily quit and reject the feeling that they are lucky to …
Information is a one-way presentation, communication is a two-way dialogue. Communication has to include a feedback loop to be called communication. …
How’s your credit score? Perhaps I could ask another way, how accurate is your credit score? Perhaps another way, how accurate …
Micromanagers grind work to halt and wastes resources, requisite organization is framework that looks at strategy with time as a critical element for how work is assigned, done, and managed. Requisite organization, or requisite uncertainty, is a great way to empower employees, maximize resources, and modify micromanagers.
The NFL draft reveals all things wrong with talent acquisition and recruiting. Looking at how an NFL team drafts provides terrific …
There is little doubt each National Football League (NFL) team spends an extraordinary amount of resources preparing to draft their number …
The drive to evaluate operations and to contain costs is mistakenly applied as an operational issue across the board. Too often a …