Archive for the Management Category


Q&A - Problem Team

Published July 21st, 2008

Q: I was just promoted to be a manager over a problem team. Where do I start?
A: Initially, you need to become more familiar with the situation before just going in and changing things. If you start by arbitrarily changing policies or procedures, you may only be treating the symptoms of a bigger [...]

Management is Essential

Published June 1st, 2008

I once met a man that claimed to have invented the personal computer. No, he wasn’t Al Gore. He was, in fact, a creative genius. To prove his claim, he took me to a warehouse and to a shelf filled with what looked like a lot of junk. There in the [...]