Management teams say a lot about any company. Effective leaders surround themselves with great people. Such leaders understand their weaknesses and know how to augment those inadequacies by hiring accordingly. Real leaders are not afraid to hire people who will challenge them intellectually. An effective CEO also knows when someone on his/her management team will [...]
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Making Excuses for Your Management Team?
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged business, company building, executive, leadership, management on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Building Trust Keeps the Team Strong
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged leadership, management, team, team concept, trust on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Trust. Why is it so fleeting? Trust determines your relationships with your most intimate peeps, with your work colleagues, with strangers, with everyone. Some of us have the propensity to trust too much, others too little. In a team environment, it is critical to trust your teammates. When a superstar athlete does not trust his [...]
Over-Communicate During Times of Change
Posted in business, entrepreneur, tagged Change management, communcation, crisis management, management on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Absent of clear information, people generally presume the worst. Therefore, in time of change or crisis, it is good to over-communicate with facts, as well as contextual information. Unfortunately, it is during these times of change that leaders are buried in the day-to-day and communicate the least. Often, unsure of next steps or too wrapped [...]
Office BBQ & Three Core Components of a Great Work Environment
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged management, work environment on June 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This video blog is during an Intrepid US office Friday BBQ. The reference topic is “Three Core Components to A Great Work Environment” from an old blog post.
Three Core Components to a Great Work Environment
Posted in business, tagged business, employees, Human resource, management, work culture, work environment, work perosnality on March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are three core components to creating an attractive and compelling work environment. The first and most critical component is business success and stability. Many see being “too” focused on financial numbers as somehow not complementary with creating a great work environment. It is only through financial stability that a company can protect its work [...]
Entrepreneur’s Job is Putting Together the Right Team
Posted in business, entrepreneur, management, tagged entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, management, startup on December 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As an entrepreneur of a startup company, I imagine myself as a general manager of a professional baseball team. My main job is putting together the RIGHT team. Many think an entrepreneur’s first task is to come up with a killer concept. Yet, it’s been said many times that ”ideas” can be a dime a [...]
Focusing Too Much on Managing Up Can Bring You Down
Posted in business, management, tagged business, leadership, management on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people are viewed as being better at managing “up” than managing “down”? To me, this is a contradiction. On a short-term basis, executives may be impressed with a manager “managing” up to them and their priorities. Ultimately, however, all executives are looking for outstanding output from their staffs. By focusing too much on managing [...]
Old Agency Players Need to Change the Game
Posted in Digital Marketing, business, management, tagged Agencies, billable hours, KPIs, management on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently reminded of a good old saying, “Don’t blame the player, blame the game!” In business if the leaders set up an environment that measures short-term Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), the employees are going to react accordingly. The problem today is that our business world is full of copy cats and followers. Not [...]
8 Lessons from the ARIS Experience
Posted in business, tagged ARIS, life lessons, management on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In my last blog post, I reminisced about the ARIS days. Now, maybe I can share some of the lessons learned during those times. It’s about the TEAM: No matter if you are MIT smart like Paul Song, it’s the collective ability of the leadership team, not one individual. You cannot scale without having a [...]
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