04/24/2010
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"Frank's skill in asking the right questions is un-mistakable, and is at the core of
his leadership philosophy.
The power of these questions cannot be underestimated, especially if you want to lead and not manage."
The power of these questions cannot be underestimated, especially if you want to lead and not manage."
—John Cave
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04/22/2010
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.Rodan of Alexandria
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Stop Drowning Your Employees!
Somewhere in your organisation, someone is drowning.
And it’s your fault.
They’re drowning in a raft of new initiatives that you’ve set in motion. They’re drowning in the bureaucracy that’s grown in your organisation over time—unnecessarily complex processes and procedures that have long lost sight of their original reason for being. They’re drowning as they try to achieve the numerous objectives they’ve been set for the year that do not seem to relate to the overall strategic aims of the business that you shared with them at a conference once.
And they’re drowning in a sea of emails, many of them from colleagues in the same room.
Oh…
Sorry
…it’s not your fault.
I see!
The raft of new initiatives are there to show shareholders that ‘things are happening’. The complex procedures are there to mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Managers are encouraged to set multiple objectives because ‘we like to keep raising the bar’. And as for emails…well, what better way to communicate?
Listen to yourselves! Your role is about creating a set of working circumstances that make it easy to deliver performance. Make the objectives relevant, straightforward and measurable. And as few as possible. Get in a Quality Control Manager to audit, revise and streamline procedures. Have just one or two at most ‘new initiatives’.
And have e-mail free Fridays.
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And it’s your fault.
They’re drowning in a raft of new initiatives that you’ve set in motion. They’re drowning in the bureaucracy that’s grown in your organisation over time—unnecessarily complex processes and procedures that have long lost sight of their original reason for being. They’re drowning as they try to achieve the numerous objectives they’ve been set for the year that do not seem to relate to the overall strategic aims of the business that you shared with them at a conference once.
And they’re drowning in a sea of emails, many of them from colleagues in the same room.
Oh…
Sorry
…it’s not your fault.
I see!
The raft of new initiatives are there to show shareholders that ‘things are happening’. The complex procedures are there to mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Managers are encouraged to set multiple objectives because ‘we like to keep raising the bar’. And as for emails…well, what better way to communicate?
Listen to yourselves! Your role is about creating a set of working circumstances that make it easy to deliver performance. Make the objectives relevant, straightforward and measurable. And as few as possible. Get in a Quality Control Manager to audit, revise and streamline procedures. Have just one or two at most ‘new initiatives’.
And have e-mail free Fridays.
Please.
Tags: aims bureaucracy circumstances colleagues complex processes compliance managers drowning email email free fridays employees initiatives quality control manager raft raising the bar risk shareholders
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04/21/2010
No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.Ben Gaye, III
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04/20/2010
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.Sue Atchley Ebaugh
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04/19/2010
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.John Maynard Keynes
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04/18/2010
Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.Leonard Bernstein
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