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 [...]