Managing Smart

For the last several months, I’ve talked about identifying your values, discovering your gifts, and living your passion.   I hope I’ve inspired you to think

I’ve talked about goal-setting for the last two months, and today, I’m hoping you’ll go beyond goal-setting – not to a place of giving up,

Having lived in three countries and traveled to 30, I can tell you with assurance that the U.S. is uniquely goal-oriented.  The expectation, woven into

I’ll bet you’re pretty well governed by goals at work—goals that flow from your organization’s long-term strategic plan.  Goals that are aligned with your company’s

It’s so very easy to complain, isn’t it?  All it takes is to move our lips, and technically, we don’t even have to think while

Someday (perhaps even now) your organization will be hiring and promoting once again.  When you’re able to promote people to supervisory roles, here are six

In a reflective mood, I was re-reading a few of the 200-plus columns I’ve written for Strictly Business over the years. I’ve gotten so many

In this tight economy, every day we are asked to do more with less, more with less, more with even less. But as a manager,

In light of our stalled economy, are you grateful to have a job but tired of doing the work of three people?  So are the