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Great Managers Don’t Have Jobs

Mr Burns

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I was thinking last night about some of the great, obvious questions your kids ask when they’re little.  The Mrs. and I were blessed with two very inquiring little minds to play that role.  Even though it was quite a while ago that they were asking, one question stand out in my mind and I thought I’d share it with you today since the response says a fair amount about how I see the management world.

One of my daughters – and I don’t remember which one – asked “Daddy, what do you do?”  Simple, right?  But like most great questions, it prompted an answer that’s anything but simple. Continue reading

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Being Up Front

Does anyone you know enjoy being lied to?  I suppose there are the harmless lies you hear such as “you look great today” when you really don’t or the benign praise heaped on a host’s tasteless food.  But I’m not thinking about those.  Instead, I’m thinking about the destructive lies told in business, particularly the ones that involve managing people.  Let me tell you what I mean. Continue reading

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Are You A Person?

Hardware-based IP phone.

The phone rang yesterday and out of that brief call comes a business thought. The person on the other end was calling a bookstore that used to have the same telephone number that my business now has. Obviously since I’ve had the number for over two years it’s been at least that long since the book store has had it but I get a call or two every month for them. It’s still in business, by the way – I’m not sure why they changed their number other than they moved to the next town. You’d think the search engines and phone books would have caught up by now. But that’s not the lesson. Continue reading

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