#4 Can People Change?
Can People Really Change? (Part 2) The Answer To The Million Dollar Question. Good morning! I’m now going to answer the question I posed in the previous blog—“Can People Really Change?” In the previous...
View Article#5 To Be A Manager
So You Want To Be A Manager How Does A Technical Person Get Promoted To Manager? If you’re currently a technical professional and you’re thinking about going into management, it’s important that you be...
View Article#8 Info Sharing Boss
My Boss Won’t Share Information Talk to me! Good morning! Once again, I was reading a magazine and thought I was dreaming. This time it was the October 9, 2006 edition of BusinessWeek. There happens to...
View Article#10 Management Myths
Part-time technical and part-time manager Good evening! As I indicated in my previous blog, I taught a class this week on being a technical professional and technical manager at the same time. This is...
View Article#11 Micro-Management or Bust!
Managing for results AND empowerment Good evening! It seems lately that everywhere I turn, much of what I read about management and leadership keeps pointing to the same set of management deficiencies....
View Article#13 Management Extremes
”And the winner of the Best Management Style is….!” Good evening! In this blog, I want to continue the thread I started two blogs ago in the blog of 101606. The topic is how best to manage to get...
View Article#14 Contextual Definition
”Define your context, get your management style!” Good evening! So ultimately we get back to the fundamental, basic question and that is: What is the best management style to use in a given situation?...
View Article#15 A Million and One
Have It Your Way ”A Million and One Ways to Lead!” Good evening! If you’ve been reading my recent blogs you have probably gotten the seemingly radical message that there are a million and one ways to...
View Article#44 Team Building Ain’t What You Think!
Team building isn’t a cookie-cutter process. As many authors, pundits, consultants, and academics have stated over the years and as many of us who have worked inside organizations known from...
View Article#50 Is Micromanagement About Power?
Do engineers really care about power? Hello everyone! I wanted to spend one more blog (maybe two) on the topic of micromanagement, I listened to a teleseminar a few weeks back. The teleseminar was...
View Article#57 Micromanagement To The Rescue!
The case for “close-in” management. Hello everyone! What would you do if you were managing a direct report who complained much of the time? A direct report who “spewed venom” in conversations with...
View Article#65 Managing Projects Half a World Away
Can I make a contractor part of my team? Hello everyone! I have a coaching client who has a big challenge. He is attempting the development of a website by hiring contract website development from...
View Article#67 How Technical Should A Manager Be?
Should a technical manager be a technical expert? Hello everyone! There seems to be an on-going debate about how technical an engineering manager ought to be. Some say that any manager worth his or her...
View Article#79 Trust Your Experiences
“How do you recognize good management advice?” Hello everyone! “Who do you trust and what is the truth in management?” This last week I was reading some of the blogs on the people skills necessary for...
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