David Lorenzo has a great post about the power of face to face meetings. I wholly agree with his assessment that passion is best expressed in person.
I’m all about email and IM and, when I must, the phone. For several months (until yesterday, actually) I even had a polycom unit set up on the corner […]
What follows is probably going to be controversial. And it will probably be taken out of context, or dismissed out-of-hand because of the name of this blog. But what I’m going to tell you is both subtle and powerful and must not be misused or abused, though I’m quite sure it will be and probably […]
One thing I’ve always admired about the business of higher education is the idea of collegiality. The big idea is that coworkers ought to have a good sense of civility and cooperativeness. In higher ed, like most other workplaces, it’s easy to find intradepartmental collegiality, but tougher to find interdepartmental collegiality. On the whole, at […]
This is really more of a personal management hack than a personnel management hack, but I think it scales pretty well–I’ve had an entire office take vertical days from time to time. And actually, I like this so well that this isn’t the first time I’ve written about it.
The concept is super simple. You just […]
This is a tried and true hack that isn’t limited to the managers in the crowd. Death by next action has it’s roots in the ‘Getting Things Done’ philosophy. The ‘next action’ phrase refers to the very next physical action that moves a project forward. Death by Next Action is a micromanagement trick that’s used […]
Back in the day, radios had actual dials which, when turned by hand, scanned across radio frequencies. Much of the sound coming out of the radio was static “noise.” When your ear heard recognizable sounds (”signal”) like voices or music, you slowed down the dial spinning and moved the dial back and forth until you […]
Delegation has a sweet spot and it lies somewhere between the tightfisted grip of the control freak who can’t give anything away, and the lackadaisical absentee manager who won’t accept responsibility. Somewhere in there is a place where a manager can offer a chance for expanded responsibilities, with a safety net. It’s the place where […]
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