Many meetings are like unpleasant dinner guests who have come uninvited. They intrude on your productive time, drone on with unnecessary conversation, and you can’t wait for them to leave. Does that mean useful, effective meetings are a hopeless cause? Of course not! But the techniques you can use to make them work will surprise you – like telling people they can leave whenever they want. Jack Skeels and Steve Prentice will give you the tips and tricks in out TAOM Episode 11, I Hate Your Stupid Meeting, part of The Art Of Management Series.
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In the 1950s, a distinction was made between the underlying beliefs about workers – Theory X and Theory Y. Depending on which you believe, it would influence your behavior as a
Lazy gets a bad rap. Managing and managers can be costly to your organization’s productivity (listen to episode 2.1, The Natural Tax of Managing) and in fact less
Can you be a better manager by stepping back and letting teams manage themselves? As strange as this may sound, the answer is yes. Often managers stop all over the
