by msynk | Apr 4, 2019 | Company Culture, Dialogue, Growth, Management, Uncategorized
Have you tried “multiplying” the staff you have? No, I’m not talking about cloning your staff. That would be a pretty good trick if you could pull it off, though. I’m talking about the book Multipliers and the ideas and techniques outlined in...
by msynk | Aug 27, 2015 | Accountability, Dialogue, Growth
“I don’t give work to you because you can’t handle it” or something similar is said to the supposed poor performer. Conversations like this happen all the time. The teammate won’t hand off work to someone else because they don’t...
by msynk | Mar 24, 2015 | Alignment, Communication, Dialogue
All the advertisements about voice mail, email, texting, and social media give the impression that these move your business along faster and without them you’ll fail to grow. However, without good dialog before using them, they tend to muck things up and slow...
by msynk | Jun 27, 2011 | Dialogue, Education, ideas
At this weekend’s Inner Circle Symposium, another facilitator (John Engelman, of Ames, Iowa) said the following. “Business Leaders Need a Steady Diet of Input.”Thinking about this over the weekend, I have to say I agree. All the great...
by msynk | Jul 12, 2009 | Company Culture, Dialogue, Leadership HTMF
This might be the toughest lesson of the book How the Mighty Fall(HTMF)by Jim Collins. It also might be the most useful. The stories hit hard. Companies bet big on a new product or service, yet ignore the data that says its out of date(Motorola), frame the data so...
by msynk | Feb 19, 2009 | Communication, Dialogue, Leadership
Lots that is wrong in today’s business environment comes from a lack of trust. Be honest with yourself. With stories coming out almost daily like the Stanford Financial story on Tuesday, it’s hard to have faith in a lot of things. Government, Suppliers,...
