Do you have a team of people working for you? Do you manage them? Do you provide direction, guidance? Do you get things done by working through them? Then you are a great manager, excellent boss and possibly also a… Read More ›
Leadership
Everyone is a recruiter
What is the single most important thing you need if you are building a company? Well, you may say: a great idea, money to start with, customers would be nice. All these are definitely useful, but you won’t get anything… Read More ›
Learn to be genuinely interested in people
One of the key aspects managing people effectively is the ability to show genuine interest. What do I mean by genuine interest? I mean that not only you act as that you care, but you really do care and listen… Read More ›
Leaders shouldn’t hide
Over the years in various management roles I was regularly part of a discussion about something as trivial as “office layout”. Very often the argument was around closed offices versus open space. Often I heard that open space is too… Read More ›
Don’t manage. Empower!
One of the tenets of coaching approach to managing people is the idea that you don’t provide solutions, but you are a guide that helps the individuals to find the solutions by themselves. There is a very strong reason why… Read More ›
Management by walking around reinvented
If you are a leader in bigger organization you face a very challenging task. How do you ensure that you are seen as a leader not only by direct subordinates but by the whole team? Daily visibility is the answer…. Read More ›
The broken ladder: more choices in your career than you thought
Fresh out of university, starting my career as a developer in couple of small start-ups and being rather geeky in nature I never really thought too much about “a career”. The one thing I had set was to be a… Read More ›
It’s not my job!
There are not many situations that irritate me more than people reacting to a request by words “It is not my responsibility” or “It is not my job, someone else should do it.” And sometimes it doesn’t even needs to… Read More ›
Coaching approach to leading people
We live in exciting new times when more and more people work in so-called knowledge based economy having jobs that require creativity, knowledge, passion, ownership and that inner feeling of doing something that makes sense and will make a difference…. Read More ›
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