Are you TOO important to your team While I was on vacation this week I re-read one of my favorite management books: Turn that Ship Around by David Marquet. This is a massively underrated leadership book in my opinion. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend checking it out – I love the audio version. […]
New Manager? 5 Things You Must Do in Week 1 When I got my first management job I was really excited. Of course I pretended like it was no big deal and I tried to act like I’d been there before, but on the inside I was giddy. When you get your first shot at […]
3 Tactics for Managing an Insubordinate Employee Q – I just started managing a new team and one of my staff members is close friends with my boss. I keep noticing them having personal powwows and secret strategy sessions without me. And there have been a couple times where I’m pretty sure he was actively […]
How to Work with Incompetent Co-workers Here’s a recent question I got from a reader. Its one I get a lot so I thought I should share my answer in a blog. Q: I’ve got good news and bad news … The good news is, I just got assigned a big project that has the […]
The Unicorn Recruiting Trap – Why I’ve Stopped Hunting Unicorns “A” Players Game Changers Full Stackers Just about every manager I know has hung their hiring hopes on the pursuit of mythical creatures. The unicorn in particular. To one degree or another, it’s always been this way I guess, but to me, our obsession with […]
