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If we're managers, then
regardless of our title we are responsible for managing people. This
means that those skills known as "Soft Skills", the ones
supposedly difficult measure are your biggest asset. If I'm a project
manager then my success at delivering projects on time has little to do
with my knowledge of project management technology and nearly everything
to do with my ability to manage a group of people into a high
performance team working together to met that deadline. Ultimately, soft
skills deliver hard benefits. 
Are you a Gambler?
Risk Management Redux Organizations and Leadership
It's not the followers who are at fault Problems! Glorious Problems
We need more problems, not less Pareto: Correct? False? Useful
A look at the 80/20 rule as a Management tool. A Reason we see Constellations The power of Patterns Negotiation for Neophytes Make them an offer even if they refuse? A Menagerie of Mistakes Why you should, and likely did, make mistakes A recipe for Teams Soon to be on a food channel near you! Never go to a meeting Again There's an alternative to meetings... sort of. Captain Cook's GPS What if you could implement new solutions in old problems. Smile, Laugh, Breathe Why and how a smiling environment is better for your org. Tiny Phrase, large Praise Motivation on the cheap Attend MORE meetings No... seriously... go to more meetings! Don't Answer that Phone The simplest Time Management tool available. Just Trust Me Why and How do we decide to Trust someone? Just Trust Me Take II It seems I had more to say on the topic of Trust Rebuilding Trust What happens when we violate a Trust? How do we restore it? Why our Projects Fail Reasons for failure that you've never read before. The Art of Making Assumptions Remember what you heard about not making assumptions? Forget it - it was bad advice The Room that Eats Speakers There are rooms out there that speakers should fear. Poor
Managers Thwart Good Organizations
The Rhythm
of your Ability
Advice and
Suggestions for Meeting Planners The Art of
Problem Solving I Asked
for Apple Pie (MP3)
Credit
Legerdemain for Managers The
Fight, or Flight of the Butterflies (MP3) When the
Schoolyard Bully Graduates School's
out, we can Cheat now!
Stop Annoying your Audience Team Building isn't a Game A Plan for all Reasons Consider your ethics when speaking of access Thinking the Unthinkable Lessons
from Neon Opportunities
right under our noses The Proper
use of Graphics Making
Stone Soup Forced
Analogies
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Truth Pick #159
Never tell people how to do things. Those managers attempting to control every thought and action, minimize their power to leverage. A good lever doesn't exert effort, it channels effort to a single point of action. To attempt the control of effort is ultimately to restrict it. Dictating a solution stifles creativity. It asserts the manager, and the manager alone has the right, or knows how, to think. In the well intentioned effort to get it right, novice managers assume everyone else will get it wrong. Ironically, it is usually our proven ability to get things done that raises us to management. To place that behind us, and give up control of the solution, is contrary to our nature. Set only my destination and the world is my resource. Define the path I must walk and I can only watch my step. (c) 2004 Peter de Jager Pdejager@technobility.com
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