by Joe Driscoll | Nov 27, 2009 | People
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...
by Joe Driscoll | Nov 27, 2009 | People
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...
by Joe Driscoll | Nov 27, 2009 | People
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...
by Joe Driscoll | Nov 27, 2009 | People
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....
by Joe Driscoll | Nov 27, 2009 | People
You have been doing your job so well that your are going to be promoted. Instead of doing the work that you have done so well, you are now going to be asked to supervise and direct others in doing that work. Welcome to management! Most managers, whether newly...
