Last night, this tweet came across my timeline Are you responsible for a research team? How did YOU learn to lead it? — realscientists (@realscientists) January 6, 2016 (If you’re…
Category: <span>management techniques</span>
One of my favorite things to do is teach other people how to better manage their projects. It is also one of the hardest things I do. I’ve been thinking…
The way most organizations promote people into management is, to put it bluntly, terrible. New managers are selected on technical skill and maybe some vague concept of “leadership potential,” given…
In my most recent Management Monthly newsletter, I shared a Harvard Business Review article about visualizing work. I am a big fan of visualizing work. I currently use Trello for…
In the introduction to last month’s Management Monthly newsletter, I wrote about the fact that my philosophy for both management and personal productivity (which I view as a “managing myself”…
You’ve probably heard about the need to “manage up”- but what does that really mean? To me, it means interacting with your supervisor and other managers up the chain in…
There have been several articles about Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and holacracy lately- probably the one at the New York Times is the most prominent. I’m intrigued by the idea of…
I’m not sure which people complain about more: meetings or status reports. I think the complaints about both come from the same place. Both tools are often misused, or at…
We all like to think that we’re impartial in our decisions, both at work and in our personal lives. However, research tells us that we aren’t– no one is. We…
The second (and final) installment of my Get More Done class was this morning. I had a lot of fun putting the class together, and was pleased with how it turned…