Posts Tagged ‘manager’

Stop Micromanaging!

We’re talking about the kind of manager that gives someone a task, a deadline, and then keeps ‘checking up’ to make sure things are moving along. This is micromanagement, and it’s not good.

Signs of micromanagement

Resist delegating;
Immerse themselves in overseeing the projects of others;
Start by correcting tiny details instead of looking at the big picture;
Take back delegated work before it is finished if they find a mistake in it; and
Discourage

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April 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Management, manager, micro-management | 1 comment»

10 Things to Look for in Managers

It can be a funny experience going for an interview, trying to wow your prospective manager, and then once you begin the job, realize you shouldn’t be working for him/her.

Instead of only thinking of getting the job, think of how you’ll be able to work with this person. Are they good managers, or will you rue the day you joined the team?

Liz Strauss has put together 10 traits to… » Continue

April 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: interview, job-choice, jobs, manager, managers | 3 comments»

Why We Should Put an End to “Hamburger Management”

Hamburger Management is a shoddy, debased version of real leadership that focuses on just three things: whatever demands least, can be used fastest, and costs least. It thrives wherever organizations seek to meet unrealistic targets with insufficient resources to maximize short-term profits. Indeed, Hamburger Management is short-term by nature, and will habitually sacrifice long-term advantage and value for the immediate gratification of bosses and investors.

To force people to work long… » Continue

November 6 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, anxiety, business-ethics, change, civilized-work, competition, creativity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, innovation, leadership, lifehacks, Management, manager, micro-management, organization, slow-leadership, strategy, stress, trust, value, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 3 comments»

Quality Leadership

Suppose someone asked you to list the most important qualities you would find in an outstanding leader. What would you say? Toughness? Authority? Decisiveness, perhaps? Tenacity? You could make a case for all of these. Today’s conventional thinking about leadership tends to stress the more active, resolute qualities in a leader. Leaders are expected to get results and remain effective under the constant pressure of globalized markets.

What I want to… » Continue

August 14 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: business, civilized-work, effectiveness, generosity, incentive, leadership, listening, Management, manager, mercy, micro-management, organization, performance, restraint, slow-leadership, work-life | no comments»

Thinking About Trust

Trust in other people is one of the foundations for creating a civilized working environment. Many managers are overworked primarily because of a lack of trust. They take on too much themselves, because they don’t trust their subordinates to do the work properly. They cannot allocate enough time to their own work, because they don’t believe people will put in the required time without constant supervision. They attend pointless meetings… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: attitude, behavior, boss, burnout, business, businesslife, civilized-work, control, corporate-culture, delegation, discontentment, fear, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, manager, micro-management, office-politics, organization, respect, team, teamwork, timemanagement, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 1 comment»

“Hamburger Management”

A leader forced to utilize “hamburger management” is like a cordon bleu chef told to work as a short-order cook and produce nothing but hamburgers with french fries every day. Any organization that uses this approach is like a diner who eats nothing else. The first becomes bored, frustrated and disillusioned; the second becomes sick rather quickly.

Hamburger management is any form of leadership or management technique that utilizes only a… » Continue

July 9 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: civilized-work, creativity, decision, leadership, managememt, Management, manager, organization, overwork, performance, prioritization, time, timemanagement, work, work-life, workflow, workstyle | 4 comments»

Civilizing Corporate Culture

This week, I’ve been thinking a great deal about what counts as a “civilized” corporate and workplace culture. That’s because I’m deep into the editing process with my new book, Slow Leadership: How to Civilize Your Workplace, which will be published this Fall. The more I think about it, the more is seems to me that much of corporate America — much of the Western corporate world, if it comes to that — has taken a large step backwards in recent years in providing truly civilized working conditions. » Continue

June 12 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, burnout, civilization, civilized-work, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Lifehack, Lifestyle, Management, manager, organization, overwork, prioritization, time, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 3 comments»

How Civilized is Your Workplace?

A civilized workplace is one where people have the time and freedom to do their jobs to the best of their ability. No one is bullied or hassled by some boss high on ego and testosterone. Leaders trust their subordinates to do what they’re paid to do; and subordinates trust their leaders to act with their interests in mind as well as the firm’s profits (and the executives’ stock options). » Continue

May 29 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, civilization, civilized-work, commitment, ethics, fun, leadership, lifebalance, managememt, Management, manager, office-politics, organization, performance, prioritization, Productivity, trust, vision, work, work-life | 1 comment»

Management Hack: Grow Fire

If you’re a supervisor or executive in your company, you also must play the role of farmer. It’s your job to cultivate and grow crops that will yield the next series of leaders and top performers. So, with that as the backdrop, I say to you: grow fire.

Grow Fire

Find the most passionate of your employees and give them extra care and attention, because though they might occasionally crowd the… » Continue

May 19 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: development, employee, Management, manager, work, work-life | no comments»

Meetings, @&!!$*@ Meetings!

In the list of activities that waste time and cause worthless frustration at work, meetings rank near the top, just below performance appraisals and preparing budgets. » Continue

February 6 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: Communication, leadership, Management, manager, meeting, Productivity, work | 10 comments»

The 10 Beliefs of Great Managers

I have started a brand new online coaching program for Managing with Aloha called the MWA Jumpstart, and today I wanted to share the critical first step of MWAJ with you. The program starts with some self-reflection on what you believe in if you have chosen to be in management.

What do the truly great managers of our world believe in?

1. Managers believe that people are innately good. Without… » Continue

January 19 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: Management, manager | 30 comments»

Be admired and respected

Just before Christmas, my husband found out his boss had been offered a new job and that he had accepted it. It was a golden opportunity for his boss, and while my husband was happy for him he was also pretty bummed at the prospect of losing him.

Looking from the outside in, I knew this guy was a lot of fun to be around and had a reputation for… » Continue

January 12 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: Management, manager | 5 comments»

5 Things Employees Need to Learn—from You

Aloha Readers of Lifehack.org! Leon has graciously invited me to be a guest author here, and I am most appreciative of this wonderful opportunity to share the ideas which add richness yet more simplicity to our lives. As a management coach, and the author Managing with Aloha, you’ll find that what I’ll most often offer you will deal with management, leadership and the reinvention of the workplace at the hands… » Continue

September 8 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: employee, leadership, learn, Management, manager | 11 comments»