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Tips for the Managewhich: Is My Staff Doing Anything Resume-Worthy?
November 5, 2009 | 
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One of the more obvious clues that your group is on the chopping block is when you can’t figure out what real value your group adds. That’s even more true when the company is reorganizing people into that group in ways that don’t make sense. It’s a good thing for the managewhich to recognize this trend, and start managing up immediately, even if it seems like it is too late.
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Tips for the Managewhich: Is What I’m Doing Resume-Worthy?
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Career Management groups are filled with people who haven’t progressed in their careers, and those are the folks who are having the toughest time landing new positions. Many of those fall into the category of being happy that they had a job, and so they did whatever was necessary to keep it. This is fear-based decision-making at it’s finest, and I say at it’s finest because the decision probably wasn’t that conscious for most of them.
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Managewhich? What to do With Complete and Utter Incompetence
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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 something. However, there are times…
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Manage Which? Up or Down (Part 3)
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 used. This forces Hoover to be clear about what he wants, and it also allows Breeze some input into how it’s produced. This minimized rework when Hoover has asked for something that actually won’t give him what he wants, and sometimes Hoover realizes that he doesn’t need the work done at all.
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Manage Which? Up Or Down?
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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 of which demands that Breeze and her team drop whatever [productive] work they are doing to deliver this new requirement ASAP.
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Managewich Tip: Negativity Doesn’t Work, So Quit Getting Sucked In
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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, generous, kind people, and frankly it was uplifting.
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Today, I am Puzzled.
Jigzone.com is a great place to do some puzzles online
Today, I’m puzzled.
As I am out and about at various networking events here in the DFW metroplex, I meet a lot of struggling solopreneurs. It seems like many businesses just aren’t doing as well as they were a year or two years ago. Something about the economy? Anyway, the usual topic of conversation when we have facilitated group discussions is around needing more clients or customers.
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The Omniscient Managewich
I have a question for the sandwich generation of managers, middle managers or owner managers, stuck in the middle of competing priorities and agendas:
Why is it so hard to know what someone else really wants or believes, and yet, how is it that we know others’ intentions just by looking at their body language or actions?
Paradoxical, yes?
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Investing in People Pays 600% Dividend
I need a picture of me on a soapbox. Anyone know where I can find one?
Engaging employees pays off more than fear. Most of us know this because we desperately want to be engaged and fulfilled ourselves, and we know that when we’re connected with what we do, we go the extra mile gladly. However, knowing it in our heart of hearts doesn’t work for some.
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Women Stuck in the “Managewich”, Get Out of Your Own Way!
Jim Bumgardner
There’s a new study out last week that shows women consistently underestimate and undervalue their own performance at work. It gets worse the older women get, so the women who are most likely to break out of middle management (the “managewich”) and into the executive ranks are sabotaging themselves. This makes me furious!
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