At work a co-worker emailed me a link they felt I would find interesting. It was a post by Karen Burns on Money and Yahoo Finance, 7 Things Never to Say to Your Boss and 7 Things your Boss Should Never Say. I found both pretty good. What about the items that should be said? I think [...]
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Words That Should Be Spoken
April 20th, 2010 
Steve 
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations 
Tags: communication, goals, Leadership, Leading Teams, managing, relationship, trust 
1 Comment »Let’s Ditch The “Social” Part
April 11th, 2010 Steve Over the past year plus, I have been pushing for using Enterprise 2.0 capabilities to improve communications and collaborating. We have some basic problems with our internal folks and there understanding of these capabilities. Many understand them as “social” computing. This understanding clouds their judgement right off the bat. Social does not apply to work. Tried [...]
A Tale of a “Bad” Boss
February 27th, 2010 Steve Ever have one of the “those” bosses? Hate to go to work? See how you used to work, change (not for the better)? How about when you are talking with others and you hear them complain about their work situation? There usually is one common theme – they work for a terrible boss. I have [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: managing, mission, motivation, people, thoughts, Vision 2 Comments »What’s Next?
February 17th, 2010 Steve After 27 years of managing teams, shifts, departments and such – I am now leading one, myself. I still have focal and other things to close up, but for the most part the day to day coaching, assisting and helping manage people is no more. Not sure why I wanted to write a blog post [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: change, coaching, Leadership, Leading Teams, managing, people, relationship, thoughts No Comments »Should Loyalty Matter?
January 30th, 2010 Steve Should loyalty matter? Do you have a favorite grocery store, restaurant or service station? Do you have certain leaders that you will follow? Why are they your favorites? For me, I do have many of those items that I am loyal to for various reasons, but the common theme is relationships. When I look at [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: Leadership, Leading Teams, people, relationship 2 Comments »Transitions Happen All The Time, So Why Do They Go Badly?
January 25th, 2010 Steve Over the years, I have been involved in many transitions; as a leader coming into a new situation; as a member for a team getting dissolved; as a member of an existing team getting a dissolved team. There is one thing that is definite, they cause all sorts of churn. In these types of transitions, [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: action, communication, fear, Leadership, Leading Teams, people, reflections, thoughts, Vision No Comments »Judgement Error’s
January 22nd, 2010 Steve Awhile back, I wrote about the project that just never ends. The other day, I got the news that it is in hibernation and will be coming back in 2011. This got me thinking about all the time that was spent and all the time that gets spent on projects or work that amounts to [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: goals, Leadership, Leading Teams, people, performance management No Comments »Command & Control vs Collaborative
January 20th, 2010 Steve I have struggled with this topic for quite some time. I have pretty much worked in 3 organizations all my life (2 large ones – US Army and Intel; 1 small – Myron’s Service Center). No one will argue that the military is anything but command and control… Oh, don’t get me wrong there is [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: change, collaboration, Leadership, social computing, social media, thoughts No Comments »Next Couple Weeks Could Define My 2010
January 11th, 2010 Steve After the holiday’s have come and gone and the first week back in the office is completed – the year gets really cracking those next two weeks. Most people I know – come back to the office refreshed and ready to go. From a work perspective, budgets for the upcoming year should be set (well, at [...]
Posted in Leading Teams, Observations Tags: challenges, communication, fun, goals, Leading Teams, people, rant 1 Comment »Motivating Employees
December 22nd, 2009 Steve Last week, I was meeting with a brand new manager. On his request, he wanted to ask a few questions. His first questions took up all of our time together. “How do I motivate my employees?” Wonderful question – one that I first told him to step back and look at the overall work situations [...]
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