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Become a disciple of Peter Drucker

You may thirst for cutting-edge knowledge from the young guns of management thinking. But don’t be fooled. There is little in management that is really new.

In your career, you will face many issues, and you can bet that Peter Drucker (1909-2005), the father of modern management, has already thought about it and offered some brilliant […]

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Eight steps to better decision making

In life, we need to make the right decisions for the big ones more frequently. We can achieve this by following some useful techniques I have outlined here.

Peter Drucker, yes, I have mentioned him before, observed that weak managers make plenty of easy decisions while strong managers make fewer decisions – only the big ones. […]

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Ten+ ways to improve meetings

One thing I am sure of is that you are attending too many meetings.

As your skills become more developed and successful, you will be involved more and more in meetings. I do not envy you at all. You may find that many meetings in your organization do not actually lead to any action being taken. […]

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Invest Time To Explore “Action Meetings”

Most meetings are totally defective. They are held because they are considered a ritual. The fundamental purpose of the meeting has long since been forgotten.

Most managers, at some time, have received training in managing meetings, yet the level of frustration inflicted with meetings remains the same. A methodology has been developed called “Action Meetings” by […]

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Embrace the SCRUM methodology on all projects

Yet again, this is another concept introduced to me by my mentor friend.  It just shows how having a coffee and asking, “What new techniques are you using at work that are giving you an advantage?” can provide golden nuggets.

If you have not attended a scrum course, you still have a beginner’s belt, whereas you […]

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Winning Personal Habits

This is an extract from a mini toolkit ‘Winning Personal Habits for the Millennial to Master’ (article +E-Templates) that can be source from this link.
From lessons gathered from forty years of observation, reading and discovery. I have broken the winning personal habits into the following categories.

 

Creating Behavioural Traits That Will Make You A Better Person and […]

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Should I Stay or Should I move jobs?

This is an extract from a mini toolkit ‘Should I Stay or Should I Move Jobs? ‘ (article +E-Templates) that can be source from this link.
Choosing an organisation and a life partner have much in common.  During the courtship both parties are on best behaviour, all adverse behaviour traits are well disguised.  Promises are made, and […]

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10+ Techniques to adopt from the lean movement

This is an extract from a mini toolkit ’10+ Techniques to adopt from the lean movement ‘ (article +E-Templates) that can be source from this link.
The lean movement, which started in Japan during the rebuild after the Second World War, had an American influence, Edwards Deming.2 The lean methods developed by the Japanese multinationals have now […]

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The 10+ Major Performance Management Traps For the Millennial Manager to Avoid

The 10+ Major Performance Management Traps For the Millennial Manager to Avoid
Over the forty years I have been observing and studying performance management, I have come to the conclusion that the major performance traps are so much part of the DNA of management that they are common in most organisations. Organisations need to challenge the […]

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Leading and selling change – the three books that lead the way

This is an extract from a mini toolkit (article +E-Templates) that can be source from this link.
Far too many well-meaning initiatives fail because we have not understood the psychology behind getting change to work. As we will know from past experiences this sales process is not easy and can be prone to failure.  I would argue that […]

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