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While I’ve written about the new GM avoiding taking on the problems of their team members; there are times when you do have to face these problems and solve them yourself. Or you need to provide your team members with the skills to solve problems
There are many ways to solve management problems that ou can encourage your managers and team members to use.… Read more
Management consultant Peter Drucker wrote a column for the WSJ in 1993, as General Motors, Xerox, Sears and IBM lost their clear business advantage. He sought to identify reasons why.
The article, which found five deadly sins in common with these corporate declines, is an interesting one, please read the descriptions and don’t be turned off by the subtitles.
Drucker’s fifth deadly sin is
— The last of the deadly sins is feeding problems and starving opportunities.… Read more
At the end of the first day I became a “middle manager” i cried myself to sleep. The job certainly wasn’t what i had thought
it would be; i felt like a rather compressed sponge, absorbing pressure from above and demands from below. I had no idea what the
job of a manager was. I didn’t even know how to get things done, or even what things to do, first!… Read more