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When you are promoted to your first General Management position, the first thing that will happen is that people will start to bring you their problems. “Hey Boss, what should I do next?”
While you may think that this is a similar situation to when you first became a manager the GM challenge is different. For a newly appointed General Manager you have a strong temptation to take over.… Read more
In the series of posts about becoming a great new General Manager, I’ve written almost exclusively about success, successful habits, success processes. Its time now to consider the causes of business problems, and consider it in a positive way
Failure and the causes of failure, manifest themselves in many ways but to truly solve a problem you must make sure you have found the root cause. … Read more
One business book that I recommend consistently is Steven Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People… and despite being around a long time it’s still a great book, for being simple and powerful at the same time.
For the new General Manager, let me channel Covey and suggest 7habits of my own.
As the newly promoted GM what habits should we take on from Covery to be successful?… Read more
What happens when a business proposal is tabled at a meeting, or when a new strategy or action plan is discussed, or when you have a competitive or industry review or when you are training your team? As a new General Manager, are you happy with the depth of discussion that is created or do you feel that the information is treated quite superficially if its taken in at all. … Read more
As a new or transitioning General Manager, a new skill needed is having the ability to simply understand how your your new business makes money. If you haven’t developed a means of analysing business plans in a logical way, then I’ve set out a means below?
By analysing your businesses strengths and weaknesses also enables you to focus your attention on where your business needs you RATHER than where you are most comfortable.… Read more