Best practice stories
These posts come from true stories by competent and caring managers like you. They’ll let you bring the latest thinking into your meetings. Browse the search and category menu: there’s probably a post on something you’re working on today!
Finding and Making Meaning at Work
How to uncover or discover inspiring meaning in your team's work Solving a Peer’s Important Problem—Again A Workgroup member had [...]
Making Complex Decisions
Helping a member frame an existential decision Jim, the CEO of a meat processing business found out the utilities [...]
Do Your Managers Know What Happiness Is?
You can't make your employees happy unless you understand just what that means. Top Three Ideas Happiness isn’t material [...]
Remote Working is Testing Our Humanity
What work must be done in person? “What remote work is possible?” is easy to answer. But “What in-person [...]
Where’s This Relationship Heading?
B2B Business Arrangements Who hasn’t entered a “strategic partnership” only to later discover a clash of expectations? A colossal [...]
A Lonely, Joyful Road. Management as a Calling
Why should someone become a manager? Most people begin their management careers by accident and then spend a lifetime [...]
Another Slice of Management Baloney: “Thinking Strategically”
A reflection on the clarity of key terms and practices A friend called to say his wife had been [...]
Now THAT’S how to start a presentation!
Workgroup report: What’s critical to a great presentation? Sometimes one presentation can boost your career a step—or bail you [...]
How should the CEO be evaluated?
How should the CEO be evaluated? Participants Al Antoniewicz, Kaushal Chari, Cheryl DeMars, Steve Johannsen, Bryon Johnson, Bill Mitchell, [...]