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The Unspoken Truth About Managing Geeks - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: "Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial, managerially and business-challenged, victim-prone, bullheaded and credit-whoring. To overcome these intractable behavioral deficits you must do X, Y and Z."
management  IT  leadership  technology  business 
september 2009 by jbreazeale
Leaders: Frame Your Messages for Maximum Impact - Management Essentials - HarvardBusiness.org
A manager's job is, quite simply, to motivate people toward achieving a common goal. Succeeding at this job requires an array of communication skills, ranging from delivering a prepared talk to helping team members negotiate the best way to move ahead on a project. No communication skill, however, is more critical to the manager than the ability to frame an issue effectively.
via:hbs  management  communication  howto 
april 2009 by jbreazeale
Seth's Blog: The myth of big salaries (it's all marketing)
The failed bankers on Wall Street have been whining that if they have to cut bonuses and salaries dramatically, they'll be unable to recruit great talent, and they need great talent to fix the situation. And for years, boards have...
via:sethgodin  essay  money  business  management  economics 
april 2009 by jbreazeale
Generation Blend
Managing across the technology age gap
technology  howto  management 
march 2009 by jbreazeale
The Perfect Management Team
There are 4 functions that a organization needs to be successful from a management perspective. Sometimes these functions can be managed individually, sometimes the individuals are able to manage multiple functions.
via:learntoduck  management  leadership  business 
december 2007 by jbreazeale
How to be a ‘Sticky’ Leader « FoundRead
"Prof. Heath offers some suggestions for ‘how to be sticky’ like Welch, Clinton … even, Jack Kennedy. The top 3: make your message surprising; concrete; and keep it simple..."
via:foundread  entrepreneur  business  communication  leadership  management 
november 2007 by jbreazeale
The Practice of Leadership » Blog Archive » Four principles leaders can use to guide employees through disconcerting change….
"The four key principles are prediction, understanding, control, and compassion and are described as follows..."
leadership  management  culture 
november 2007 by jbreazeale
Feld Thoughts - CTO vs. VP Engineering
"I went for a mountain run yesterday with a long time friend of mine. In between panting, we spent about a half an hour discussing the differences between a CTO and a VP Engineering..."
via:bfeld  technology  management  entrepreneur 
october 2007 by jbreazeale
How to use storytelling to motivate your startup staff
"how business leaders can use storytelling to inspire their employees and affect positive change in their organizations..."
via:foundread  storytelling  communication  leadership  management  business 
october 2007 by jbreazeale
Management practices that work
It took 100K surveys to find these "Management practices that work" -
via:mckinsey  business  culture  management  productivity  organization 
september 2007 by jbreazeale
Sometimes you have to wing it
Risk is in everyone’s mind at the moment, but that doesn’t mean they understand what it is or how it works. That’s the main reason why so many people, including some supposed experts, constantly get into a mess. Here’s how to avoid joining them.
via:slowleadership  leadership  management  business  strategy  personal  risk  knowledge  learning 
september 2007 by jbreazeale
Teaching eagles to run
Why do we persist in trying to turn ourselves (and other people) into what we and they plainly are not?
via:slowleadership  human+resources  leadership  management  business  culture  strategy  personal  jobs 
august 2007 by jbreazeale
Head, shoulder, foot!
Most founders think about complementing technical or business skills when they build their intial team. Fewer think about the emotional components required to marshal the operation to success.
via:foundread  business  entrepreneur  culture  management  leadership 
august 2007 by jbreazeale
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
What do leaders do to make employees in creative functions feel supported or not?
via:hbs  leadership  management  business  human+resources  creativity 
june 2007 by jbreazeale
The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products
Key concepts include: * Entrepreneurs from less-trusted groups found it more difficult to overcome trust barriers. * Trust can act as a barrier to entry for new firms and products because trust makes existing relationships more productive...
via:hbs  marketing  entrepreneur  strategy  business  products  ideas  management  leadership 
may 2007 by jbreazeale
QUOTED OFTEN, FOLLOWED RARELY - Fortune Magazine Article
QUOTED OFTEN, FOLLOWED RARELY Thirty years after he published the "bible of software engineering," Fred Brooks talks about managing teams of people and why projects so often go wrong.
engineering  software  project  management  productivity  business  design 
november 2006 by jbreazeale
Willitfly.com - Where Enterprising Minds Get Their Wings™
According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), 80% of new businesses fail within five years -- typically, because attention was not paid to best practices in performing important business tasks. By emulating and automating expert prep, Willitfly.co
entrepreneur  innovation  creativity  marketing  money  business  development  management  learning  reference  guide  howto 
august 2006 by jbreazeale
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