Your team wants you to tell them what the strategy is? Do you know it? Do they know it?
When the tribe speaks, you have to listen. Success in business today resides in tapping into the right tribes.
A leadership lesson from Ted’s Montana Grill in Atlanta.
It’s rare for the person with the answers to just speak up. But if you know the questions to ask, you can prompt the people with the answers to share them with everyone else. And when they speak up, you know what to do, and they feel empowered.
In the spirit of the clean slates, resolutions and Auld Lang Syne’s of the New Year’s Eve, here’s my bit of advice for you: Go disgust yourself. Really. Take a good look in the mirror and realize just how disgusting you are. It’ll do a lot more for you in 2009 than vowing to lower [...]
Watching Jonathan’s video (below and here) sparked a still-brewing thought in my dusty brain: Consensus is the enemy of progress. OK, maybe that’s harsh and not always true. But after seeing Jonathan’s response to the HR lady below, you realize that having balls gets you a lot more than having consensus. Post Footer automatically generated [...]
Read this post and click the link on the Common Sense PR blog. The link highlights axioms of Fred Ross, Sr., and I haven’t read anything this good in a long, long time. I appears as though what most of us are most impressed with are organizers, not leaders. Here are my favorite points from [...]
There’s something fundamentally wrong with any State of the Union address: the expectations for it are way, way off. And it’s unfair to pinpoint only the President’s annual address. It’s as bad, or worse, with a corporate “state of the company” presentation. Annual meetings with stockholders can blow away the disappointments that are often produced [...]
If you’re a marketer, you’ve got a lot of people counting on you. Creative is always needing your input on their work. Financial analysts need you to ok their latest pricing models. Legal and Regulatory need you to send your wish list of claims. R&D needs you to narrow down their work. Customer Service needs [...]
We all have our complaints about our jobs. This process takes too long; I’m always the last one to know anything around here; No one knows what they’re doing up there; Why do we have 3 different logoes; Management never shares their vision with us. Blah, blah, blah. Work is hard. And crazy. And it’s [...]
