“Skills for New Managers” is a business book written by Morey Stettner. It has been published in 2000 by McGraw-Hill. Overall it feastures 174 pages. Take-Aways Having a managerial role model helps you create your own managerial template. Developing a management credo gives you a touchstone for charting your path as a new manager. Your ethics play … More Book of the Week: Skills for New Managers
During the last weeks, I published a series on the real Change Pitfalls. In the fourth and last part I would like to focus on Risk Mitigation as another major topic causing trouble when it comes to Change… Again, please bear Kotter’s Eight in mind, as failing Risk Mitigation is clearly part of the set of items: … More The Real Change Pitfalls – Part IV: Risk Mitigation
Just a few days ago I published the first two part of my series on the real Change Pitfalls. In the third part I would like to focus on Resource Management as another major topic causing trouble when it comes to Change… Again, please bear Kotter’s Eight in mind, as failing Resource Management is clearly part of … More The Real Change Pitfalls – Part III: Resource Management
Just a few days ago I published the first part of my series on the real Change Pitfalls. In the second part I would like to focus on Employee Communication as another major topic causing trouble when it comes to change… Again, please bear Kotter’s Eight in mind, as failing Employee Communication is clearly part of … More The Real Change Pitfalls – Part II: Employee Communication
I decided to deal with some elementary Change Pitfalls during the next few posts / weeks. During my professional carreer I had to experience that Change is mostly suverted by a set of not more than four items that include ten major Pitfalls for every Change Project. As they are essential for every Change Process, … More The Real Change Pitfalls – Part I: Leadership
Sometimes business just feels like a rat race. And of course there are different ways to cope with the situation. All in all for me effectiveness is of great importance when beeing stuck in the business hamster running wheel. And recently a great text from Change Grandmaster John P. Kotter came to my mind… The … More “A Day in the Life of a Manager” as written by John P. Kotter
I recently dig up some quiet old articles. Amongst those I found one that has been published within “Booz & Co. – Strategy & Business” on November 24, 2009 / Winter 2009 / Issue 57. Within this very magazine there was an article by Matt Palmquist dealing with emotions. I thought it could be nice to … More Emotions in Decision Making: How Emotions Affect Decision Making
Take-Aways The key concept in Toyota’s production method is kaizen, a continual drive to improve. Toyota is the world’s most profitable automobile manufacturer. The key to Toyota’s success is the Toyota Production System emphasizing lean production. TPS is a cultural way, a path and a commitment, not a set of tools to apply to a … More Book of the Week: The Toyota Way
In 1998, Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel released a book called “Strategy Safari”. The book was published by The Free Press, New York. Using the analogy of the blind men trying to describe an elephant (remember the story where the one feeling its tail thought it was like a rope, the one feeling … More Book of the Week: Strategy Safari
I recently wrote about building up a resource for Change knowledge here within this very Blog. Finally I got the time to deal with some basic psychological questions of Change. I am looking forward to be able to share those insights on “Change Psychology” with you, here. Description For some people and in some situations, we believe that we are somewhat below average … More Change Psychology: Below-Average Effect
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