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!
What If the (Facilities) Project Program is Wrong? Part II
This ad hoc Workgroup of experienced planners took on the hardest question: What if the project program is wrong? [...]
How Can You Prepare Your Successor for the Top Job?
Brian Baker, CEO of Sentry Equipment, kicked us off this discussion with stories about his own succession and transition [...]
The Right Use of Management Power
Protection, Direction and Order Having the power to tell people what to do can be dangerous. Ten leaders took [...]
What Else Could Go Wrong? (Risk management)
Use Strengths to Attack, Not Just Offset Risks On Tuesday, September 29, 2020, CFOs from several industries participated in [...]
How Can You Build Optimism in Hard Times?
The Center's Workgroups are optimistic they can help people stay optimistic Best practice question: How can you build optimism [...]
How Do You Manage a Prima Donna?
The “big producer” is always a net loser for the firm. Unless you’ve got a genius like Frank Lloyd [...]
All Our Assumptions About Delegating Are Now Wrong
Did years of “open-plan better-togetherness” make us sloppy managers? The Center’s Best Practice Workgroup ) found that managing remote [...]
Seven Executives Debate Management’s Post-COVID Future
Changes we were forced to make won’t revert The Center’s Workgroup discussed how our world will be changed forever. [...]
Has Power Ever Gone to Your Head?
The Use and Misuse of Managerial Power Members Steve Johannsen, Susan Dineen, Kevin Hickman, Bill Mitchell, Zach Blumenfeld, Bryon [...]