Just in time for Halloween: There are horns in the original but not in a single live version I’ve seen. Except for the Muppets version. Family friendly!
Managers, you are not measuring what matters
Most teams and individuals have goals. Tracking progress on those is the easy part. What are you doing to measure and focus on the activities that lead to the goal? Questions? Comments? Ideas for future episodes … or interview subjects? Email Mike and Mark. Listen here … subscribe on Spotify, Amazon or Apple … or watch below the text.
Can you delegate to your busiest team members?
If you are a lone wolf with no direct reports, the last episode revealed how you can “delegate” some of your less important tasks so you can focus on your priorities. But what if you DO have a team … and that team is too busy to receive more tasks delegated from you? There is an answer, and it is …
Lone Wolf Delegation
Are you a lone wolf with no employees to take over your urgent–but less important–tasks? How do you handle time management when there is no-one to delegate to? Mike and Mark have some ideas. Questions? Comments? Ideas for future episodes … or interview subjects? Email Mike and Mark. Listen here … subscribe on Spotify, Amazon or Apple … or watch …
How to “yell” at someone
It’s kind of hard to take this CNN headline seriously: For some strange reason, my gut is telling me that if I, say, raped one of my kids, it would be worse for their development than if I, say, yelled at them. But we do need to take verbal abuse seriously. The study was commissioned by a charity called Words …
Innovation occurs on the edges
Lego saw it … Toyota seems to always see it … GM didn’t see it … and the bigger or older your organization is, you might not see it either. Innovation occurs on the edges. There are things you have to do to leverage it. (Check out this excellent Harvard Business Review article for some related thoughts and a printable …
What do you want from your people? What do you want FOR your people?
A surprise resignation causes Mike to take a client through an exercise that changes everything. If you have valuable team members that you want to keep working with you, “Don’t wait for the funeral!” Suggested resources: The simplest feedback method around Just-in-time feedback: why, what and when Marcus Buckingham on effective feedback Questions? Comments? Ideas for future episodes … or interview …
What Teddy Roosevelt’s portrait says about working in the moment
President Theodore Roosevelt hated his first portrait so much that his family hid it in a dark place on the wall. He eventually destroyed it. So the next painter, John Singer Sergent, would have a tough time of it. The president, after all, was active and busy. The story goes that they searched the house for the best lighting, and …
Labor leads to love
The Ikea Effect: Mike shares Harvard research that explains why some projects and initiatives get buy-in and some don’t. Have you involved your team in the work? Questions? Comments? Ideas for future episodes … or interview subjects? Email Mike and Mark. Listen here … subscribe on Spotify, Amazon or Apple … or watch below the text.
Horn Sections Make Rock Better: Candy Everybody Wants
I am shocked I have not featured this song yet. I have loved 10,000 Maniacs from my teens on. (I fell further in love once I heard the early and incredibly sweet slice of life “My Sister Rose“–another horns song! It has to be a wedding present to her actual sister, although I’ve never confirmed this. Plus, it’s cowritten by …