Putting Some Meat in the Managewhich!
Dec 9 Carolann Jacobs on December 9th, 2009
No one wakes up in the morning and asks to themselves, “How can I screw my job up today?” And yet, sometimes we feel that way in our management roles, yes? I’ve gotta tell you, when I look back over the course of my corporate career, there were a lot of things I would do [...]
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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 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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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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The Omniscient Managewich
Sep 10 Carolann Jacobs on September 10th, 2009
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 [...]
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Managewich on the Run
Sep 3 Carolann Jacobs on September 3rd, 2009
“Stuck Inside These Four Walls, Sent Inside Forever, Never Seeing No One Nice Again Like You…” Oops, sorry. That’s “Band on the Run.” But it could describe the managewich’s office, yes? Whenever I hear about the “Fight or Flight” Response, I wonder…. is it really either or? The answer is for the most part, yes. [...]
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Investing in People Pays 600% Dividend
Aug 25 Carolann Jacobs on August 25th, 2009
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. [...]
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Women Stuck in the “Managewich”, Get Out of Your Own Way!
Aug 20 Carolann Jacobs on August 20th, 2009
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! I thought [...]
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