#5 To Be A Manager
So You Want To Be A Manager How Does A Technical Person Get Promoted To Manager? If you’re currently a technical professional and you’re thinking about going into management, it’s important that you be...
View Article#8 Info Sharing Boss
My Boss Won’t Share Information Talk to me! Good morning! Once again, I was reading a magazine and thought I was dreaming. This time it was the October 9, 2006 edition of BusinessWeek. There happens to...
View Article#9 Your Only Tool Is…
Communication Good evening! Today I conducted a training class at a customer site. The topic focused on being a technical individual contributor and a technical manager at the same time. This is...
View Article#11 Micro-Management or Bust!
Managing for results AND empowerment Good evening! It seems lately that everywhere I turn, much of what I read about management and leadership keeps pointing to the same set of management deficiencies....
View Article#21 Being Understood
Being Understood ”Imagine Being Understood” Good day! Imagine… imagine what it would be like if whenever you communicated with anyone, you were… completely understood. Imagine what it would be like to...
View Article#22 Being Understood #2
Being Understood #2 “Imagine Being Understood – Again” Good evening! I want to spend one more blog entry on the topic of “context.” In the last blog I introduced you to the phrase “I didn’t steal your...
View Article#23 Radio Head
“Being real doesn’t get it” Good evening! I was listening to a radio show just before the new year to an interview with the lead member of band Radio Head. Now Radio Head has been called one of the...
View Article#24 Art of Persuasion
“The Necessary Art of Persuasion” Good evening! I just finished reviewing an article in the Harvard Business Review magazine called OnPoint, dated Winter 2006. These are selected articles from the...
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