Archives for the 'Management for Geeks' Category
Employee Motivation Myths Debunked
David Javitch talks in Entrepreneur.com about 5 motivation myths.
These don’t work
Money motivates.
Just keep them happy.
Ignore Conflict.
Some people just aren’t motivated.
Smart employees don’t need to be motivated
I whole heartedly agree with David, it is just his 10 quick ways to motivate them that sound heartless
I think that there is one real good way to motivate your […]
Bring Me Your Solved Problems
John Hunter has a post that is an answer to Frank Roche : No Problem Without a Solution. John quotes Taiichi Ohno “Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.”
Both sides have a valid point here. On one hand, it is the managers job to make sure that his team can learn to […]
Pit of death
The opposite of the Best Case Scenario is the Pit of death.
Falling into the Pit of death can happen quite quickly when we focus on results instead of focusing on actions. Lets take an example, suppose we have a bug to find. Our software works on my machine, but doesn’t work on Gil’s. […]
Best Case Scenario
Staying positive and energized is a one of the major jobs of a Manager/Entrepreneur. There are many pitfalls on the way to making our dreams come to realization, but once we go negative, it is hard to go back. So I try (not always that successfully) to refrain from saying “no”, and to not […]
Pushing and pulling
Now that the company is in integrity it is easier to fail fast and to fix our broken processes. As Johanna Rothman says Graceful Degradation is Not What We Want; Quick Failure is Better
Not only is it easy to do it, we don’t even need a manager to do this as the actual team member […]
Where is you CFO (Chief Fear Officer)
(Via Zane Safrit) “This Manager of Fear has a simple job description: Help management and others see how their fear — when left unchecked — can lead to bad business decisions, mediocre work and possibly the demise of the business.” Culture of Fear is Creeping Into the Workplace.
I would have a manager of growth […]
Great idea! I’ll write it down
Sometimes someone I meet will have a great idea and I will say so. "Good idea, I’ll write it down". I always add “It was (Albert) Einstein who said: The opposite of forgetting is writing”
One of our shareholders asked me once - what happens to all the notes that you write down?
Well sometimes […]
Being outstanding
In order to get outstanding results there is a need for outstanding actions.
I am really picky
I have been picky on wording lately. I know that I am picky, but words do have a profound effect on how we act.
I have talked in the past about Victim Talk vs Responsible talk, and we have fallen back to talking in Victim language.
We must …
What we need …
We should …
Although these word seem […]
Nothing is Broken
For the first time in our management integrity meeting - clearing, one of Typemock’s managers said: “Nothing is Broken”. The manager moved around in his chair feeling uncomfortable, and tried searching his mind for something that is not working, but couldn’t find anything.
I think that this is a great success, and it points to […]
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