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Category Archives: Management Skills

A bit of slack

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Whether you keep your juniors on a short leash, or give them plenty of rope to hang themselves with, it’s worth remembering that you’re still left holding the other end. Ultimately, the CSI team is going to find you there. What have you been doing at your end of things?

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All wet

Monday, May 5, 2008

One of the wealthiest business families in the world recently hosted an event to which they invited some of the management field’s leading thinkers. The post-event PR material, to show just how cutting-edge this gathering was, included a slide from the presentation of one of these gurus; it went something like this . . .

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The Socratic Oath

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A main purpose of the Socratic Genius series of articles posted here is to make the argument that managers should look to their own interests when accosted by gurus bearing advice. The hope was to encourage the development of a constructive skepticism that would lead to new ideas being forced to prove their worth by opening up their conceptual makeup to examination and approval. . .

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We’re back!

Monday, April 28, 2008

The recent publishing software upgrade for this site has had its challenges, and it is a disappointment to me that some of them have prevented visits to this site over the past three days. Given our discussion of the advantages and relative overall value brought to an enterprise by generalists, as opposed to specialists (or, at least, those who are over specialized), I am intrigued that this particular problem was completely overlooked by the technical experts. . .

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Just business

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Remember that saying from the old mafia movies? Both sides knew and accepted that events had developed to the point where one wiseguy was going to have to deal with another. Nothing personal. Just business. Over the past two days we have reviewed the preparation and conduct of a negotiation that popped up regarding the organization of a prominent speaker’s inclusion at a conference. . .

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