
SUCCESS KILLING DECISION #1 - Choosing to give in to fear.
Effective Managers Spend Little Time in the Weeds.
Great Leaders are Successful Failures.
The importance of a 15-minute daily huddle with your team.
Drop the F-Bomb occasionally to keep your team on task.
If you set everything on fire, you won’t have enough firemen to put it out
Say what you do and do what you say!
18 February 2016
18
February

I recently read a good article by Jeff Haden on “9 Success-Killing Decisions Exceptional People Refuse to Make” on Inc.com. Personally I thought that the points were spot on, but were explored too briefly. Each one of the points could be discussed as individual articles in and of themselves… or even books.
So I thought I’d explore each of the...
Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 by George R.
15 July 2015
15
July
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Effective managers know one thing, spending time in the
weeds (aka – being too “hands-on”) is counter-productive and can sabotage their
ability to lead and provide direction. A manager who spends too much time in
the weeds by deciding to do tasks normally reserved for direct reports or other
resources essentially abandons their core responsibility...
Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2015 by George R.
09 June 2015
09
June
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It isn’t a secret; the world we live in today is the result of some of the greatest failures humanity has seen. However, it isn’t the actual failures that resulted in many of the objects, events, and governments that currently make up the world, but rather the attitude of the individuals who learned from the failures. (The apparent oxymoron – “Successful...
Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 by George R.
07 May 2015
07
May
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One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen in business is managers not establishing a routine daily team meeting. The benefits are basic but the risks of not holding routine meetings can be catastrophic.
The daily team meeting has one major purpose; to align the team. Many things can happen during the daily course of business and keeping teams...
Posted on Thursday, May 07, 2015 by George R.
01 April 2015
01
April
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More often than not managers are not (or dare I say never) at the helm of a self-directing dream team. That is, a team of overachievers that always remains on task, can change priorities to match the organization’s needs, and never makes mistakes.
In reality a manager will not have a self-directing dream team (why would you need a manager then?),...
Posted on Wednesday, April 01, 2015 by George R.
10 March 2015
10
March
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Firefighters will very seldom have enough people and water to put out a fire immediately. They have to choose (prioritize) where they can effectively douse the flames to first contain the fire - essentially ignoring the rest of the fire - and then work it down until it’s extinguished
In crisis situations everything becomes a fire, or so it...
Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by George R.
25 February 2015
25
February
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The statement is very simplistic, but if organizations would simplify their quality systems to just that one rule they’d be surprised how easy managing the system would become.
Whether you are following ISO 9001, ISO/TS 16949, VDA 6.3 or any other system, there are tremendous amounts of details and other rules that need to be followed. Most organizations...
Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 by George R.
17 February 2015
17
February
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One of the phrases I get drawn to every time I struggle with
accomplishing something is one coined by Albert Einstein:
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and
over again and expecting different results.
It is a rather funny, but true way to quickly shed light on
an incorrect method or process being the culprit of a problem. There is one...
Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2015 by George R.
29 January 2015
29
January
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Possible Answers:
1) "I
want a detailed memo about this issue till tomorrow's morning."
2) "You
were supposed to have changed that light bulb last week!"
3) "We
haven't got a policy on that".
4) "I
am on my way to a very important meeting, so we'll discuss...
Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2015 by George R.
23 January 2015
23
January
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I speak from experience here, in fact we all do… when we were young – before we uttered our first words – we cried to get attention. We wanted our parents to listen to help solve a problem. We were cold, we were hungry, or our tummy’s hurt. In fact, reading medical journals, we never cried for the sake of crying. There was usually something we could...
Posted on Friday, January 23, 2015 by George R.
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