Posts Tagged ‘rules’

Break the Rules

Many of the rules that apply in businesses were set years ago and have endured by force of habit. A good example is the QWERTY keyboard, which is in use on all desktop computers. The original QWERTY layout of keys on the typewriter keyboard was designed in the 1870s to slow down the speed of typing because fast operators were causing typewriter keys to jam together. By… Continue reading

September 22 2009 | By Paul | Tagged: assumption, branson, innovation, roddick, rules, swatch, virgin | 17 comments»

12 Rules for Self-Leadership

I had promised you I would follow up with my Rules for Self-Leadership this week, and they follow.

A Preface: Management and Leadership are not interchangeable words for me. We need both of them, for in part, management tends to be more internally focused (within a company, within an industry, within a person) whereas leadership is more externally focused on the future-forward actions you will take in the greater… Continue reading

April 19 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: discipline, responsibility, rules, self-management, work-ethic | 18 comments»

12 Rules for Self-Management

Management is not just for managers, just as leadership is not just for leaders.

We all manage, and we all lead; these are not actions reserved for only those people who happen to hold these “positions” in a company. I personally think of management and leadership as callings, and we all get these callings to manage and lead at different times, and to different degrees.

Considered another way, I believe we… Continue reading

April 12 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: discipline, responsibility, rules, self-management, work-ethic | 12 comments»

What are the Rules? Hopefully, none.

Rules are the kind of thing you love when you want them, and hate when you don’t.More often than not, my advice to managers is to avoid the urge to set them. The only exception I can think of on the pro side of writing rules are The Real Rules of Engagement because they save so much squabbling and disrespect within work teams, helping them get to the business… Continue reading

September 14 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: empowerment, engagement, expectations, freedom, rules, worklife | 5 comments»