My Boss Was Incompetent and Untouchable. I Had Eighteen Months Left.
He was not going anywhere and neither was I. Learning to work under somebody like that without absorbing their behavior is a skill, and I learned it because I had to.
Tag: Management
I managed technical teams for decades, which means I made most of the mistakes these articles warn about. This tag covers management: leading people, communicating up and down the chart, and the difference between authority you are given and authority you earn.
LeadershipI Became a Manager in 1981. The Hard Part Was People Sitting Ten Feet Away.
In 1981 the difficulty was delegating to a person you could see. The managers who succeed now are not the ones with the best org charts.
AgingEight Skill Areas Where Senior Management Consultants Carry Unique Authority
Management consultants spend careers absorbing tacit pattern recognition no business school teaches and no operator has time to develop. Here are eight skill areas where the senior consultant holds authority almost nobody else can claim, and why a book is…
Business BooksPurdue University Used “How to Manage a Consulting Project” in Course
Discover how 'How to Manage a Consulting Project' became part of Purdue University’s curriculum.
CareersHow to Manage a Consulting Project: The Guest Lecture | Professor Makadok’s Yearly Consulting Class
The 2018 session of an annual tradition: a business school consulting class taught from Richard's book, with live answers on vetting consultants, telling a CEO he's wrong without saying so, the time-quality-money triangle, the $10 million Trader Joe's lesson, scope…
Career StoryConsulting 101 for Student Teams: One Manager, Real Data, and the Recap Email | Consulting Guest Lecture 2016
The November 1, 2016 class session: how consulting found a college coder, training first-time consultants, the enthusiasm-is-not-data warning for entrepreneur clients, one manager per project with rotating roles, division of labor in writing, agenda-enforced meetings, the same-day recap email, project…