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.
Decision MakingSome management habits never get anybody fired, and they still burn through good people. A boss who needs 100 percent of the information, a review that dredges up a mistake fixed nine months ago, and a meeting built to pat…
DelegationMy method for hiring a virtual assistant is blunt: do the task yourself first, write a script, hand it over, and keep replacing VAs until one can follow it. The script does most of the work.
Book ReviewsScott Adams built the Dilbert Principle from thousands of emails he received in the early nineties from people describing their own workplaces, which is why the satire still lands three decades later. The book argues that companies don't just promote…
Business BooksNobody warned me that becoming a manager would feel like being handed the keys to a spaceship and told to fly it while already in orbit. I first became one in 1981.
Business BooksI went into consulting with twenty years of corporate experience and no idea how to run a business. The technical work came naturally and the business side nearly destroyed me. Every mistake in this book is one I made.
CareersHe 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.
Business BooksIn 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.
AgingManagement 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 BooksI sat through countless seminars and read hundreds of books on motivating people, and most of them missed the real secret. Some managers swore by money, others by quick praise. Over 33 years of leading teams I found the answer…
CommunicationThree accidental managers learn that real leadership comes from surviving organizational chaos, not following business school theories.
ManagementPractical survival guide for toxic workplaces. Documentation, escape funds, boss-proof skills, mental health, when to walk away. From someone who lived it for
Business BooksDiscover how 'How to Manage a Consulting Project' became part of Purdue University’s curriculum.
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