September 16, 2011 · 3:45 pm
Finally Friday, and that means something food-related. This week, you might have passed over the article on NYC’s Monkey Bar in the NY Times. You can read it if you click through here. In any event, it provided a pretty good business lesson for today’s screed.
This joint has been around for 75 years. Luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Helen Hayes and others helped to build its reputation. It was taken over in 2009 by an ownership group that was focused on glitz and exclusivity and were quite successful taking that route. For a time. Now, not so much. Continue reading →
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September 14, 2011 · 11:10 am
Suppose you’re a young person who has just been promoted into their first management job. You’re supervising a bunch of folks, some of whom may have been peers. You know that there’s an awful lot to learn. Where to begin?
I’ve trained a lot of those kinds of folks over the last 30 years. I may have even been one myself at some point. So today’s post is about the thing that trips up a lot of managers, even those with a number of years of experience under their belts. Continue reading →
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September 6, 2011 · 9:24 am
A few of us were talking yesterday about a mutual friend who got sacked last week. The guy was very good at his job and frequently exceeded both expectations and “reach” goals so performance wasn’t really the issue. He is a genial sort of guy who can have an edge from time to time but then again, can’t we all? On the surface it was a mystery to many of us as to why he was let go since there really weren’t any of the political problems one sometimes sees from new management or a shifting of responsibilities.
As it turned out, what did him in was crossing the line. Continue reading →
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