After an interesting encounter yesterday at a meeting I thought that I would not only write on this topic, but actually do it in a video instead to get the point across better. It’s hard changing people’s minds because most of the time we don’t want to know the truth. It’s kind of like how […]
Years ago at a consulting gig I was participating in a telephone meeting. I had one other person in the room with me, and had only known her a couple of weeks. During the meeting, someone asked me a question about something that I didn’t remember doing, so I answered that I didn’t know. After […]
It’s hard to stay positive all the time. Life doesn’t always give us exactly what we want, and often that irritates us. When we get frustrated or irritated, we can do a few things. One, we can totally shut down; two, we can try to make things bad for whomever got on our nerve; three, […]
Good management principles can help turn around bad situations. Teaching someone how to become a good manager if they wish to learn can be a rewarding experience. Trying to teach someone those same concepts when they don’t want to learn them can be frustrating and hard to overcome; most likely, you’re wasting your time. However, […]
One of the difficulties anyone who’s any kind of manager faces is that your job depends on others to make you look good or bad. Your employees can make you look like a genius, even if the best thing that happened was that you inherited them. At the same time, just because someone is good […]
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