If you’re a manager, you’ve heard it at least once in your career, “You don’t trust me,” or “Management doesn’t trust us.” Now if you’re honest with yourself, when you’ve heard either comment, you’ve tried not to roll your eyes as you’ve thought to yourself, “Whiner, whiner, whiner.” Be honest. We’ve all done it....
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Complacency and micromanagement seem to be two diametrically opposed ideas. Yet complacency leads to micromanagement. And micromanagement causes team complacency. They feed off of one another and yet they are mortal enemies. So why do so many well-meaning leaders create these battles between themselves and their teams? From my experience, it’s because that’s how...
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Do your job and immediately calm project team rumbles to prevent team explosions and projects going off-track.

As a manager, how many times have you made a decision, initiated a project, or took hold of a problem no one else has tackled yet? Now, how many times have you been criticized by others when you did that? Were you criticized for not including certain people in the decision-making process, for not...
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