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For Delegation to Work, Coaching is Necessary
For Delegation to Work, Coaching is Necessary Delegation: Senior leaders want to believe that delegating a task is as easy as flipping a switch. Simply provide clear instructions and you are instantly relieved of responsibility, giving you more time in your schedule. That’s…
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Management: Your late-night emails are hurting your team
What’s your management approach when it comes to communications? This article can’t be shared enough. Credit to HBR. Around 11 p.m., you realize there’s a key step your team needs to take on a current project. So, you dash off an email to the team members while you’re thinking about it. No time like the present, right?…
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Ideas for building a culture of originality
A must-read. You will most likely recognize the first work culture environment described. And perhaps enjoy a few suggestions for change. – pw If there’s one place on earth where originality goes to die, I’d managed to find it. I was charged with unleashing innovation and change in the ultimate bastion of bureaucracy. It was a place…
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The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Categorizing the problems and small business growth patterns in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes apparent…
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How to get work done (when you don’t feel like it)
Holidays are over and it’s back-to-work time. Not feeling inspired in the dreary month of January? No worries – I especially appreciated artist Chuck Close’s observation that “Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” There’s that project you’ve left on the backburner – the one with the…