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You’re at a company event and someone asks your views on China vs Japan in North Asia, or whats your perspective of the problems in the middle east… or what do you think will happen in 2014.
You need some cogent answers to difficult questions, and more importantly how they may impact your business.
So for your education, here are three extracts from Quartz.com… Read more
As an occasional extrovert, I believed I could present at will- stand up, talk. But when I saw Rob Campbell– Weiden and Kennedy Strategic Planner- present I immediately realized that my comfort with talking could also become a weakness when it came to giving useful presentations.
Equally, some of my colleagues are introverted and so avoid presentations when ever they could and when forced into it would really over prepare in great detail.… Read more
A question from Madeline, who says she’s a fan!
… Read moreI have a subordinate that just avoids wanting to make revisions to our HR presentation, and does it in a passive way leaving it to the last minute and then just passing the buck back to me. I don’t want to threaten to fire her for what could be seen as minor problem, nor do I want to spend my time micromanaging her?
I used to be a powerpoint wiz, and some of my colleagues spent a large amount of time animating, dissolving, colouring and prettifying their presentations as though the quality of their powerpoint could disguise the paucity of their thought.
So it’s noteworthy that Amazon founder—and new Washington Post owner—Jeff Bezos’ proscribes PowerPoint presentations at Amazon.
Bezos instead requires that employees compose 6-page narrative memos, and he starts meetings with quiet reading periods—“study halls”—in which everyone reads the memo from beginning to end.… Read more
In my new self directed role, I am happy that I have no team members.
Looking back on my management career, the biggest people mistakes I made weren’t in hiring people too quickly, but in firing too slowly.
Let me be clear, a bosses job isn’t to go around and look for people to fire. But to assess when a person becomes a bad fit with their work, team, and company.… Read more