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What horrible thing did you do to deserve getting promoted like this? You were showing such promise; a great performer! One of the best. Now you’ve been promoted to a Team Leader or Manager. My condolences. It has been my experience, particularly of late, that top performers as individual contributors find that their perceived only…
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We’ve always done it that way. Let’s hold steady. Stay the course. We’ve come this far we should see it through. Arrggh! How many platitudes can you fit into an exec meeting or in a so called “leadership statement” to the team? In the current circumstances how many plans have withstood the test of our…
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Yes, you read that correctly. Trying to please or even delight your customers might just be running your company into the ground. Let me explain. It is important to make your customers satisfied with you. You certainly won’t stay in business long if you get them upset! Making them happy though relies on a few…
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See what I did there? Just my little Lean Sigma joke there… From an operations perspective, any business needs to understand the most effective and efficient use of resources. It is not something that most businesses put a lot of thought into. Typically, provided you have enough people when and where you need them, and…
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One of the upsides of being forced to rethink what is important in our lives and businesses right now is that we are forced to rethink what is important in our lives and businesses right now. We now have the time to work through what we all know in our guts that we should have…
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Right now you are looking at your business and trying to figure out how to keep it going. What can you do to manage the value it can still have when things turn back around? You may also be looking at what help you can get in that effort. What value can you get from…
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There is a great saying in the portfolio management industry. “The trick to getting things done is knowing what to leave not done”. Funny though. We keep being told to “do more with less” or “be more efficient” or my personal favourite “work smarter not harder”. These are often the pleas or “motivating speeches” of…
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It is a worldwide problem this virus. It is creating a global panic, but also a real environment of challenging business. How you respond could mean more than you might first think. Most likely you are thinking of the profit margin, also the balance sheet and cash reserves. These are all sensible and definitely needing…
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This is a controversial statement just now. In a world where we seem to only hear about the crisis of a pandemic the idea of lockdown seems to be all people think of. Keep away from others. Stop doing things. Slow down. Hold on. These messages are well intended. They make sense for health of…
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The reason most projects fail, more than 80% of the time, is poor leadership. You don’t have to take my word for it. Look at almost every project survey done in the last 20 years. They all say the same thing. So, of course, we keep seeing people sent on training to be project managers,…
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