The Wizardry Of Good Management

Leading and developing people are important tasks for all managers. Inspiring people to rise to new peaks of performance, levels they didn’t realize they would be capable of attaining, is a key to becoming a management wizard. If you want to excel at developing...

Theory “Why” Management II

Most managers are familiar with the “alphabet” theories of management. It started with Theory X and Theory Y, soon there was Theory Z and the Theory of the Rising Sun. Now, hardly a year goes by without another letter of the alphabet being canonized as the...

Theory “Why” Management

It was Private #1’s first day in his new unit. His sergeant lead him to an area on the perimeter of the camp and ordered him to dig a foxhole. Private #1, as he had many times in training, dutifully, but grudgingly, begun the task of digging the foxhole. On...

One On One

Although the game of basketball was designed to be played on a full court with five players on each team, if you are going to be a basketball player, you’ll spend plenty of time playing “one on one”. It’s a game that’s played on school...

Follow These Instructions To Give Good Ones

If you depend on people to follow your instructions, it only makes sense that you give some thought to the manner in which you give those instructions. At sometime or other, we have all been frustrated when the “simplest instructions” were not followed....