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Honesty Doesn’t Seem To Be The Best Policy

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“I’ve evaluated twenty or so direct reports with frequent handwritten notes that included two pieces of information: what I thought the person did well, and how I thought they could improve.”

Four Basic Skills of Leadership

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The skills of leadership need to address each of the key elements which make up the ‘problem space’ of leadership: (a) oneself, (b) one’s relationship with one’s collaborators, (c) the system in which one is acting and (d) the goals to [...]

Destroy Bureaucracy!

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I’ve always hated bureaucracy.  To me, bureaucracy is the enemy. Bureaucracy means waste, slow decision making, unnecessary approvals, and all the other things that kill an organization’s competitive spirit.  I’ve spent many years battling bureaucracy, trying to rid any company I’ve worked with of anything that would make it less competitive.
I [...]