In this continuing series, it is time to examine how managers directly treat their subordinates. Item 5: “My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person.” 1. It’s Nice to be Nice to the Nice Frank…
Great Work Groups: Q#1 “I know what is expected of me at work”
In last week’s blog, I introduced Gallup’s excellent survey, First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999), which posed twelve key factors which differentiate great work groups from the dross. Over the next 12 blogs,…
Keep What You Hire – 12 Core Questions
In my last post, I outlined how to improve your hiring practices. Over the next few weeks, I will lean extensively on Gallup’s excellent research as presented in First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently…
How to Hire, When to Fire
In an earlier blog, I mentioned that it’s critical to right people on the bus and in the right seat. But actually doing so can be difficult if not impossible. This blog shares tips and suggestions about how to…
Numbers Don’t Lie, But They Can Mislead
In last week’s blog, one of the key elements for success was titled “Numbers, Numbers, Numbers”. As Deming is reported as saying, “In God we trust, all others must bring data.” But, all data is not created equal. There is…
Six Key Elements for Success
In my last blog (here), I listed Common Reasons for Small Business Failure and What to Avoid. Today, I am addressing the opposite – Six Key Elements for Success, whether in your small business, your career or, for that…
Common Reasons for Small Business Failure: What to Avoid
Another Installment from “Small Business 101: From Start-up to Success” In last week’s blog, I discussed that more than half of new businesses are caput before their first anniversary and 95% are dead by age 5. That is an…
Failure is Not An Option: It’s Probable
Failure is Not An Option: It’s Probable Another Blog Installment from “Small Business 101: From Start-up to Success” In the docudrama about Apollo 13, NASA flight director Gene Kranz (played by Ed Harris) is portrayed as saying “Failure is not…