The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP
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Five Reasons Your Senior Managers May Not Be Effective
Are your senior-level managers doing the jobs you need them to do? Are they doing and contributing what someone at their level, with their stature and pay, is expected to do and do consistently?
Two Good Questions
I'm currently reading Tough Man, Tender Chicken - Business & Life Lessons from Frank Perdue written by his widow, Mitzi Perdue. It's an admittedly biased, but enjoyable and educational biography of the infamous Frank Perdue.
Are You Where You Wanted to Be?
Are you where you wanted to be at this point in the year with your business?
Are your sales where you wanted them to be?
Are your teams performing the way you wanted them to perform?
Are your customers engaging the way you wanted them to engage?
Making Knee-Jerk Decisions Doesn’t Mean You’re a Jerk
You've just had an urgent problem dumped on your desk, posed to you in a meeting, or presented to you by a client. The situation is tense. Emotions are starting to flare, and all eyes are looking to you to act. What do you do?
So You Think You ‘Walk the Talk’?
You may have rolled your eyes when you read the title to this article. I know I may have too if I hadn't just experienced two senior leaders not 'walk their own talk' just last week.
Six Reasons You May be a Helicopter Manager
We've all heard of helicopter parents. They're those annoying parents that constantly hover and prevent their children from learning to deal with life's challenges for themselves.
Why Is That Person a Manager?
Adapt, Develop and Grow, or Die
Though that title may strike you as a bit abrasive, there's nothing new with the idea: Change is inevitable. Either you adapt and change, develop new skills or technologies, or you'll die as a business or you'll lose your job as an employee. There are no other options.