The April Leadership Development Carnival is up at “Great Leadership” blog by Dan McCarthy. For those who are aren’t aware of Carnival concept, Carnival is a blog event where excellent insights on a particular topic are hosted in form of single post with links to original blog posts. “Great Leadership” is an excellent Leadership blog […]
Nicholas Bate is at it again – lists I mean. He is simply too good at articulating his thoughts in lists of 10, 25 and 100 points. Lists that are provocative and call for action. I did refer to his “Professionalism 101” list earlier. This time around, its “Be Different 25” – list of 25 […]
Just a passing thought – no one can help one who does not help himself. I observe people heavily relying on their managers for their self-improvement. I had a team member who approached me to help him improve upon his communication skills. I did a number of mentoring sessions to guide him. I also arranged […]
With two recessions in less than 10 years, it is very important for managers and professionals to know how to manage work in such situations. Thanks to Journyx Project Management Blog for pointing to the post “10 ways to be a good manager during recession” over at TechRepublic blog. The post offers some useful guidance for […]
Here are a few selected Twitter updates I posted through March 2009. March was a month of quotes and I found a lot of appealing and interesting quotes from people whom I follow on Twitter. While I love all of them, I specially like the ones marked in bold. For those new toTwitter, RT stands for Retweet which […]
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 […]