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Comment on “A” Managers Hire “A” Players by Business Solutions

Business Solutions — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:40:13 +0000

Great content and good time spent reading.

Comment on Recruiting the Not for Profit Executive Director by Debbie Dombek

Debbie Dombek — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:03:05 +0000

It’s important to keep the process manageable. This is great advice to assist in the simplification of a process that otherwise would cause much frustration to all involved.

Comment on Recruiting the Not for Profit Executive Director by Tim Slager

Tim Slager — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:58:00 +0000

This is a great piece that will help a lot of committees who are just getting started. It is so true that the right number on the committee is really important. Committees often make the mistake of agreeing that the vote should be unanimous; however, this often ends up giving one holdout a disproportionate amount of power.

Comment on Top 10 Job Search Mistakes (and how to avoid them) by Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 21 May 2010 09:55:55 +0000

Mark – The Top Ten Job Search Mistakes is right on point, and a valuable reference for everyone. I have shared with folks in search in my network. Thanks.

Mary

Comment on You are better than you think you are by Ralph Dise

Ralph Dise — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:27:26 +0000

Whitney, thanks for your comments. Here’s a bit of my personal experience: 1. The first day of Leadership Cleveland in September of 2002, I thought I was the dumb kid placed in the advanced class by mistake. Turns out just about everyone else felt the same! 2. This October the first day of Leading the Professional Service Firm, a week long class at Harvard Business School, I thought I was the dumb kid placed in the advanced class by mistake. Turns out just about everyone else felt the same!

Nothing for me has really changed in eight years.

Comment on You are better than you think you are by Whitney Bohan

Whitney Bohan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:30:29 +0000

A great article on a subject not often tackled. Research shows that women, in particular, put themselves in the “feel like a fraud” category. It is a coincidence that you mention James Howard Kunstler — I had the pleasure of meeting him in Cleveland when the “Geography of Nowhere” was released. Sitting next to me at his presentation was an accomplished woman, married (then) to a still-famous Ohioan. I remember feeling that she was the “real deal” — an aspirational model — was I impressed or intimidated? The subsequent (and unfortunate) public account of her divorce revealed very human flaws (on both sides). For me, it was tangible evidence of what your article reminds us, but with a slightly different take: allow yourself to be human — we all have more in common than we think at any given moment. Understand this and use it to lead well.

Comment on Achieving Work Life Balance by Mark W Schumann

Mark W Schumann — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:41:04 +0000

Ralph, I appreciated this article too.

We talked briefly a while back about the Agile software development idea. Turns out, work/life balance is implicitly part of the Agile principles:

Agile processes promote sustainable development.
The sponsors, developers, and users should be able
to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.

Obviously if your people are burning out due to lack of rest and personal time, that’s not sustainable. I see this over and over again: project managers who relax by drinking too much after work, developers who take up smoking, everybody just not getting enough sleep and becoming frustrated.

So a big part of Agile methodology is pacing. In Scrum (one kind of Agile implementation) you estimate the effort that goes into each task, and schedule only the tasks that will actually fit within a “sprint” of two to four weeks’ duration. And you adjust the estimates as you go along so work time becomes a constant (more or less) but the schedule adapts to reality.

There’s a lot more to it than that, but maintaining a work/life energy balance is kind of essential.

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Comment on Blind spots: What you don’t see could hurt you by Kathy Dise

Kathy Dise — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:09:39 +0000

John thanks for the suggestion. I never thought of phrasing the question – What should I stop doing. I plan I putting your idea to work immediately. I can use all the productivity I can get.

Comment on What's your story? by SHELLIE SEDLAK

SHELLIE SEDLAK — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:09:01 +0000

SUE…SOMEHOW..none of my emails go thru..I don’t get it.
Great article.
Shellie

Comment on Blind spots: What you don’t see could hurt you by Dennis Willis

Dennis Willis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:15:04 +0000

This is a great lesson. Thanks for sharing.

I had an attendee at my last planning workshop who said he was there to improve his sales ability. He is one of 7 on the sales team at a client company and the only one who signed up, at his own expense, to attend the workshop with the business owner.

The owner of the business then pointed out that this salesman was also their top producer.

The best learn the lesson of always asking “what can I do better?” and take action to look in the mirror.

Dennis

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