Archive for December, 2009
The Fifth Step To Great Management
Monday, December 28th, 2009Building Teamwork is the 5th Step to Great Management.
At one electronics company, I created and facilitated over thirty teams. This meant that for a company of only 300 employees, virtually everyone was on a team. For each team, we created a “foundation” – a code of conduct on how the team would operate. We didn’t [...]
The Fourth Step To Great Management
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Shaping the Culture is the 4th Step to Great Management. Great leaders are aware of the culture of their organizations and work hard at shaping it to ensure that it optimizes the processes needed to produce great results. The best definition I ever heard was, “Aroundhereisms”….as in, “Around here, we never take coffee breaks.”
In the [...]
The Third Step To Great Management
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009The third step to great management is to Staff for Success. In other words, Hire Winners. Hiring the right people can have a huge impact and should never be compromised. We all have seen what can happen when a poor hiring decision was made. These decisions are usually made when there is a tight labor [...]
More On The Second Step To Great Management
Friday, December 11th, 2009So I told you that the Human Resources Department should also have a Business Plan (Step 2). Based on my suggested model, I’m providing some of the ingredients that I developed for an electronics company:
The stakeholders – Employees, Customers, Stockholders and the Community.
External Trends – I included: the pending recession, the challenge of globalization, increased automation, the [...]
The Second Step To Great Management
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009More and more companies are asking HR people to be strategic thinkers and planners which brings me to my next step for great management:
Effective Business Planning
Every business and function (including Human Resources) should have a business plan that is a living, breathing thing that is kept in the forefront of everyone concerned. I worked for [...]
The First Step To Great Management
Sunday, December 6th, 2009There are 10 Steps to running a great company. Here is the first one: You have a vision and you share it…
We all know that a great leader starts with a powerful vision and that vision hooks followers who will do almost anything to help that vision get realized. I won’t bore you with the Martin Luther [...]
Attention HR: Vilfredo Has Our Answer
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009As we all know, Vilfredo Pareto developed the 80/20 Theory in the early 1900’s. He observed that 80% of the wealth in Italy was held by 20% of the population. Since then, management gurus observed that we typically spend 80% of our efforts to get 20% of the results and that, of course, we should [...]