Posts Tagged ‘managers’
This week’s most clicked
Why you can’t be the only go-to person on your team; how Brian Henson strives to live up to his father’s legacy; and tips for ensuring you’re an effective manager. It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: Are you being a good manager or just a pain? Build a [...]
Visiting the troops: Why good managers spend time outside their offices
“The office is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” That’s a quote from David Cornwell, the great spy novelist who wrote under the pseudonym John le Carré. Such advice applies not only to spies but also managers. But too often, because of the pressures of time, managers spend too much time behind [...]
Hiring in the most unusual places
Who needs job fairs when you have children’s birthday parties? I was just trying to wipe icing off of my 2-year-old’s face and there he was: the next person I needed to hire. In about two sentences, he went from “M’s dad” to the writer for a project I am working on. I hadn’t even [...]
