Posts Tagged ‘guideline’

Antidotes to Hamburger Management

I've been thinking and writing quite a lot this week about Hamburger Management: the type of management approach that is based on always doing whatever is quickest, simplest and (above all) cheapest. Hamburger Managers provide the kind of leadership that is best described as: "Never mind the quality, look how fast it goes and how cheap it is." Sadly, this approach is being forced on a great many otherwise perfectly… Continue reading

October 23 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: attitude, behavior, bestpractices, business-ethics, civilization, civilized-work, competition, decision-making, effectiveness, empowerment, engagement, expectations, guideline, Hamburger-Management, innovation, integrity, leadership, lifebalance, Management, meetings, organization, performance, priorities, prioritization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, success, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 4 comments»

Meetings Best Practices

Bill at bBlog points us to an article at Open Loops about best practices for being a meeting participant. I like the spin, because there are lots of posts out there about how to run meetings, but of course, for every one person running a meeting, there are plenty more sitting there twiddling their thumbs wondering what to do.Bert Webb covers what one might consider as a participant before… Continue reading

May 13 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, guideline, meeting, work-life | no comments»

How to e-mail a professor

College students, there are some tips and guidelines for you, if you want to get more from emailing your professor. Michael Leddy, a professor, has written a guideline based on his experiences from reading his student's emails. Summary of the main points are: