Posts in the ‘Management’ category
I have been thinking about writing an un-resume. This would be the list of all the things I have done wrong. It is a long and sometimes scary list. I always tell people a resume should never be more than two pages long. Unfortunately my un-resume would break that rule!
Any time a new ingredient is added to a cookie recipe, the flavor of that cookie changes and can’t be changed back. I cannot undo it. The cook can add chocolate chips or pecans-Dark chocolate or milk chocolate. The recipe is usually an intentional combination of ingredients. However, once one ingredient changes, the flavor of […]
I spend a lot of time in the bleachers at my kids sporting events. I love it. I am a gym rat who loves to watch both practice and games. It is one of my favorite things from my childhood that I did with my dad, The Master of The Sword at West Point. Sometimes […]
Over the last 4 weeks I have been sharing my experiences taking over new teams and my insights based on times when I did it well and when I did it poorly. I learned new things each time and believe what I am sharing can help anyone stepping in to lead a new team. The […]
When a new leader steps onto a new team, they have one chance to get it right. I got it right sometimes and other times I didn’t. The effort I put in up front always paid off later in better relationships and more productive teams. Over the last two weeks I focused on what to […]
Who’s in charge? I’m not. Not as a new leader stepping in to lead a new team. I must move my ego aside and realize that if I want to make things happen on my team. I must rely on influence leaders to drive for awhile. This is the third in a series of six […]
I learned many things during 15 years in sales leadership. I took over teams that were high functioning and low functioning. I took over teams that were full of rookies and teams that were full of tenured people. No matter the situation, I always learned more from my mistakes than I did from my successes. […]
Though I was trained to lead at West Point and led men in combat as a lieutenant in the Army, I was still a baby when it came to recognizing a problem on my team, coaching it and documenting it appropriately in the corporate world. The Story I hired Tory myself (name changed). He had […]
Most corporate sponsored leadership training is ineffective. Why? Many consultants attempt to jam their round peg of a program into the square hole of an organization. Most training has a short half -life because there lacks accountability within the client organizations to actually implement the ideas generated at training events. Leadership training often focuses on […]
