"Dad is a few 2 or 3?"... 1985, we were in Friendswood in our first house. There is a story of my...
Leadership topic - manage
Manage is step two of the empower framework: leaders who manage work with resources efficiently and effectively. Clearly and comfortably delegates both routine and important tasks and decisions with responsibility and accountability; Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; Excellent at delegation, goal formation, managing employees, and meeting management.
Roadblock – Has low detail orientation; lets things fall through the cracks;
Start with Goals, Delegation or Rhythm, then see how it plays out across the Styx series.
City of Blinding Lights… manage the day after you leave?
"I am not going to be here on Day 61."The gig was supposed to be an architectural redesign for a...
Our Lips Are Sealed… manage the whole song, or only the chorus?
manage the whole song, or only the chorus?"I can't manage this without you... and I can't read you...
Real World… manage the seat before it empties?
manage the seat before it empties?"The cancer is back" ... said by a good friend, in the season...
In Bloom… who are you actually Compressing in that room?
...who are you actually Compressing in that room?"...but you always say 3 sentences too many""You...
Mr. Jones… manage the part of you that wants to be in every band?
manage the part of you that wants to be in every band?I own 37 guitars...Your bar keeps moving...
Paying the Cost to Be the Boss… manage what Seeds cost?
manage what Seeds cost?My review came in the mail...I was 19, and I opened my performance review...
Nothing as it seems… can you manage Alive?
managing to stay Alive…“Semiconductor memory will never fly in space.” The PhD in our...
Mind management
Mind management… A bear walked across my deck in Virginia… I stood perfectly still ... completely...
managing Outcomes
Coming of age in Tyler – deep East Texas – many things managed my trajectory through this season… and into the better part of my life. My parents didn’t let me “work” so I could focus on my “job” … to get good grades, the doorway to what would be coming. Work hard, study hard, and that will pay off with Outcomes… which, to be honest, were pretty unspecific.
Do you manage with Virtue?
Interviewing for my last “real” corporate gig, my peer was venting about his team – and how they were not “leading” like he wanted them to. I wasn’t a coach – officially yet – but asked what seemed obvious … “Well, have you told them what you expected?”
What manages to Surf?
We were recently out at a pond with our daughter/granddaughters… and of course, we started skipping rocks. The delicate approach of first finding a smooth, flat rock, and then throwing it sidearm so it would land nearly parallel with the surface of the water came back to me….. after a few misses 😉 Watching the rock bounce 2, 3… 5… 15 times…
renewing Powerfully
As we were standing in the small conference room off of the Vice-Chairman’s office, we were surveying some of the memorabilia that he had collected over his Powerful career. One of the few engineers to actually ascend to this stratospheric level, he had been my idol when I started. If he could make it as an engineer, I had a chance also. Our President was playing with a ball-bearing race, with the silver rolling balls exposed that he was gently nudging around the circle. He turned to my boss and said, “… at least one of these is mine”
Power execution
Our dinner out that night in Manhattan was lovely and relaxed. Mostly because we were killing time… until an overnight flight would deliver a replacement card for a demo scheduled the next morning. In setting up our demo at THE seat of Power of IBM at that point, 590 Madison Avenue, in the boardroom no less, I had discovered the hardware was dead. And, there was something called DeltaDash that at that point was slightly more common than FedEx, and would bring us a new one at 3 am. No problem, we would drive back and have a few hours before our 10 am demo.