I Didn’t Say You Stole My Money – Why You Should Deliver Sensitive Messages in Person
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 12, 2007
I’ve got some heavy writing commitments outside my blog this week so my entries will be a little lighter and less often.? It’s painful because I’ve stumbled upon some good stuff this week that I have not had time to research. Back in the day when I did customer service training, I used the following […]
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Managerial Leadership – What Doesn’t Get Measured, Doesn’t Get Done
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 11, 2007
One of the services we offer our clients is a Leadership Scan.? We interview employees about whether basic managerial leadership practices are occurring in their department.? Further, we check to see whether?these practices are a simply a positive anomaly or whether they are specifically codified and organizationally system-supported. One of the questions we ask is:? […]
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Playing the Character Card Exclusively – Let’s Get a New Deck
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 9, 2007
Clemson University professor of management, Terry Leap, wrote an Article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Keys to Spotting a Flawed CEO,?which gave a list of behaviors which should call into question a CEO’s character.? Michael McKinney’s Leading Blog featured the list of suspect behaviors,?and I, as a commenter, suggested that some of the behaviors […]
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Work, Work Everywhere, But Not a Drop of Understanding
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 6, 2007
Not all work is the same.? Would you agree?? Aren’t some roles more complex than others???Having a definition of work levels and a common language to discuss them would advance the field of management by leaps and bounds. I went to a business simulation yesterday and the crowd was loaded with human resource and organizational […]
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Innovation Snobbery is Not Serving Organizations
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 2, 2007
Harvard Business Online has posed the question, what is management?s role in innovation?? I ask, what isn’t management’s role in innovation? Executive management?s role is to ensure that it institutionalizes the?expectation that managers will lead the continuous?improvement of their teams AND that time is allotted?for them to lead?improvement initiatives.? Innovation should be an expectation of […]
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Executives Wash Their Hands of System-Level Accountability for Employee Engagement and Managerial Leadership
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 28, 2007
I saw an article entitled, What does Leadership Development have to Do with Employee Retention?? In it, there is a list of what direct reports want from their leaders.? It is not much different than anything I have said here: 1. A clear and definite objective. 2. Resources needed to get the job done. 3. […]
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The Slowly Eroding Allegiance to Current Management Paradigms
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 21, 2007
A short post today as I am on vacation.? I flew in a helicopter from?Las Vegas to?the Grand Canyon today.? What an amazing experience, having never before seen the canyon?nor flown in a helicopter. Cheesy Sentiment Alert! I was struck by the enormous impact one small, steady river could have over time.? It encourages me […]
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Systematically Poisoning Employee Engagement
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 19, 2007
Before we were aware of the existence of bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells, disease was thought to be a curse from God.? Sick people were told sickness was their fault and the resolution of the issue was up to them.? As such, the remedies of the day included repenting, praying, and making peace with the […]
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Why Isn’t your Boss’s Boss Firing Your Bad Boss? More System-Level Issues
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 18, 2007
I’ve read quite a few articles lately advising unhappy employees to “fire their boss”.? This is easy for the employed to say, and it makes career gurus feel like they are helping disenchanted employees by empowering them.? It is a valid coping strategy for individuals, but it doesn’t address the system-level issue that caused the […]
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It’s a Small World After All: Micro Solutions for Macro Organizational Problems
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 15, 2007
Michael McKinney?reviews the book,?Optimizing Luck on his informative Leading Blog.? I haven’t read the book, but for the most part, I agree with Michael’s commentary and the overall premise of the book.? ?It’s the last paragraph of the post, which is an excerpt from the book, that pains me.? Once again, we are thinking too […]
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