Keeping your distance . . .
I rather like this . . . “In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way” (Tina Fey). Though, I have to admit . . . it’s what you do while you’re out of the way that counts.
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Good people . . .
Thinking of sending a flame email, of having a word, or answering back? Temptations we might all have succumbed to at least once in our career in response to a manager we just can’t seem to get on with. But Manfred F R Kets de Vries has an idea . . . “Remember, most bad… Read More Good people . . .
Quality counts . . .
A 2014 study by Stanford academics Edward Lazear, Kathryn Shaw and Christopher Stanton set out to establish how, and by how much, supervisors enhance worker productivity. And at the risk of minimising their excellent study to only one key point . . . this is the snippet from their research that I was most taken with: Replacing… Read More Quality counts . . .
