Managewhich? What to do With Complete and Utter Incompetence
Oct 27 Carolann Jacobs on October 27th, 2009
Her name is Oblivia. She’s nice. People like her. And, she can’t get anything done. Have you ever worked with someone who is Unconsciously Incompetent? That is to say, that they are so incompetent that they don’t even know that they are incompetent? It’s rare. Most of us know when we really, truly suck at [...]
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Manage Which? Up or Down (Part 3)
Oct 22 Carolann Jacobs on October 22nd, 2009
In the saga of Breeze and Hoover, so far Breeze has been able to minimize the number of times her team is derailed by Hoover’s ad hoc requests. We set up three circumstances for which she’ll will accept the mission. First, she has to fully understand how the ad hoc report or spreadsheet will be [...]
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Manage Which? Up or Down (Part 2)
Oct 20 Carolann Jacobs on October 20th, 2009
Where we left off last post is that our Managewich, Breeze, gets urgent requests from her manager, Hoover, and Breeze habitually has managed down, meaning that she’s generally accepted the work and the consequences of doing it for herself and her team and has muddled through by either directing her team to do the work [...]
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Manage Which? Up Or Down?
Oct 16 Carolann Jacobs on October 16th, 2009
One of the recurring dilemmas for the Managewich is the balance between managing up and down. Today we’re going to examine the phenomenon of having to produce worthless crap that adds no value simply because the boss says so. Take my friend Breeze. Her boss, Hoover, continually asks for this spreadsheet or that report, all [...]
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Woo Hoo Woo Hoo, Making My Radio Debut
Oct 13 Carolann Jacobs on October 13th, 2009
In case you couldn’t tell, I’m very excited to have been invited as a guest on the “Business Networking Brunch” this Sunday. We’re going to be on the air from 9am – 11am Central time on 1360 am in Dallas. Managewiches, I am there to beat the drum for the cause. Some of the topics [...]
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Managewich Tip: Negativity Doesn’t Work, So Quit Getting Sucked In
Oct 6 Carolann Jacobs on October 6th, 2009
I had a great weekend. As most of you know, Grow Your Business Grow Your Life LIVE! was in Dallas this past Friday and Saturday, and I was blessed with the opportunity to be a part of the behind the scenes planning and execution. I say blessed because I got to spend time with bright, [...]
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