Category: Leadership
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How to make project planning simpler and more effective
Planning is guessing. But… Being reactive costs 3 times more than planning. As a leader, what do you do? The answer is in the middle. Set high-level goals and lay a path for how you’re going to get there. You can’t know exactly what it will take to achieve what you want. And, what…
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Let’s get rid of COB deadlines
If you work in an office, it’s likely you’re familiar with the ‘COB’ deadline. ‘COB’ being the acronym for ‘Close Of Business’ or the old 5pm knock-off time. “…get that report to me by COB Tuesday” or “I need that submitted by COB Friday” you’ll hear people say. But here’s the thing. What is someone…
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It’s better to initiate
I recently listened to Seth Godin’s Tribes on audio book. It is… amazing! I’m going to listen again, and again, and probably again. I think that you should too. What sits with me after having listened this first time are his ideas about how we, as leaders, should take action. Most people, he says, react.…
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How to become the “go-to” person for important projects
We were once limited by our existing skill set. We were locked into our speciality. If you were trained in preparing budget reports, you prepared budget reports. If you were really good at writing copy, you wrote copy. If you were a project manager, you managed projects. There was very little room to move outside…
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Stop Being So Inclusive
Management has experienced a strong shift in recent decades toward empowering individuals and teams to lead and problem solve. Like any important change, there’s a danger of going too far. Don’t get me wrong. As a manager I do all I can to empower my people to lead and problem solve. But, there also comes…
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How to make a dent: on success in the new era of work
The days of ‘cog-in-the-machine’ employment is coming to an end. As the information economy grows and develops, people who can do more than shift a lever or press a button on a production line are more important than ever. But, what is it exactly that we need people, in this new era of work, to…
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What is leadership?
Leadership is hard to pin down. Leadership means something different to everyone. Leadership is fluid. Leadership is a social construct. Leadership is what it needs to be at the time. Leadership is the execution of a set of values. Leadership has lots of different moving parts. Though I’ve tried, I can’t find a way to…
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What do you want your legacy to be?
When you move on from your current job, what kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? It’s a tough question to answer, likely because you’ve never really thought about it before. You should though. And, here’s why. So many of us make the mistake of letting our careers happen to us, rather than being proactive and…
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