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Hiring and Letting Go
By Craig Nathanson · 13 years ago
Why hire in the first place?
Any employer hires for the same reason, they have a problem which needs to be fixed. When hiring, the best manager looks at three following factors: if the person ...
Why Traditional Career Development doesn't work
By Craig Nathanson · 13 years ago
What is career development?
Many organizations view career development in a typical way that a person will move up over time within a specific job ladder. Compensation guidelines are established to enable growth within these ...
Building Better Teams
By Craig Nathanson · 13 years ago
Why many teams don’t work well together
Have you ever wondered why the team that you were on didn’t work very well together?
Many teams originally were set up to fail. In sports, you build ...
Communicating: The Essence of Organizational Success
By Caig Nathanson · 13 years ago
Failure to communicate
Failure in communication is the biggest problem of management. When this occurs, it affects everything. Overall performance of people decreases, goals are not clear, people build incorrect assumptions, and relationships at work ...
Coaching Vs. Managing
By Craig Nathanson · 14 years ago
Managing and coaching is different
Think of the best coach you ever had, either at work or outside of work. What did the coach do that was effective? How did the coach interact with you? ...
How do you find the RIGHT work for you?
By Craig Nathanson · 14 years ago
Let's start with some definitions
First let's define the difference between right work and wrong work. Wrong work is work which you don't enjoy. The work feels stifling and constraining. Having wrong work you don't ...
Bad vs. Good people
By Craig Nathanson · 14 years ago
Labels at work
It can be easy as a manager to label people as bad or good performers. This performance labeling tends to be a convenient way to quickly categorize people. It is efficient for ...
Management As A System
By Craig Nathanson · 14 years ago
What is a system?
A system is comprised of processes, some important, some not so important. A process has a start and a stop, an in and an out. You know you have a process ...