Use Daily Huddles to Increase Team Performance
Here’s a practice that is sure to improve the performance of your team. Daily huddles. Short, daily team get-togethers that set you up for success every day. I recently prescribed daily huddles for a client of mine, and the next time I talked to them, they couldn’t believe all the good that had come out […]
Two Ears, One Mouth…Tell Me More
Much has been written and said about the contributions of women leaders in American business. With four+ decades of operating in this space, and a bit of your indulgence, I’d like to add to it a bit… a wee bit. First things first, I’m a fan of women business leaders, for three reasons… On that […]
Are You Limiting Discretionary Effort?
When it comes to “discretionary effort”, that extra morsel of human effort (we call it “oomph”) that each of us is capable of contributing when, but only when we want to, much of it is being withheld, owing to a variety of factors. Consider for a moment the following discretionary effort “limiter” that just might […]
Making AI-Related Downsizing Suck Less
Good advice on dealing with downsizing caused by the growth of AI tools in the workplace.
Misfired
Despite the clumsy and misguided actions related to the federal chainsaw massacre, you can NEVER “unfire” someone.
All Cows Will Please Report to the Barn
Recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy gave notice that all AMZN corporate staff were to be back in the barn working in January 2025. (Before anyone sends any inflammatory emails, we’ve used the Cows metaphor for better than 25 years and have gone to great lengths to be clear that we are NOT comparing people to […]
Tightening the Connection with Remotely Based Teammates
Remotely based workers certainly CAN become detached from their teams and their organization’s culture. But they don’t HAVE to be. Leaders play in big part in tightening the connection.
Success Lesson From Apple’s Leaders
by Bill Catlette 4/28/23 • memphis • (2 minutes) Jason Aten has a piece in the current issue of INC Magazine* profiling one attribute that is instrumental in Tim Cook’s considerable success for the last 12 years at Apple. Whether one is an Apple fanboy/girl, or not (I am), it’s hard not to appreciate the […]
See Ya! Saying Goodbye in the Workplace… It’s About How You Make Them Feel
by Bill Catlette 4/4/23 • Memphis (2-minute read) Firing people is hard, but let’s not try to make it easy. (Yes, you read that correctly.) Reasonable, mature people understand that from time to time, company managements get blindsided by pandemics, misjudge the economic windage, future prospects, and/or their ability to perform in a given set […]
Quiet Quitting – The Latest Thing (That’s Been Around Forever)
Maybe it’s the alliteration. The fact that it makes a catchy hashtag. Whatever it is, talk of #quietquitting just won’t seem to quit, quietly or otherwise. We’ve delayed our weighing in on it until some of the furor subsided, but the fact is that we (and many others) have been talking and writing about quiet […]