by Liane Davey | Oct 26, 2016 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Strategy & Planning
“We’re lucky. Times are good and it’s pretty easy to manage right now.” This is a quote from a member of an executive team I’m working with right now. He’s right, times are good for their business…really good. He’s also right that the steady sales and recurring...
by Liane Davey | Oct 23, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
In my last post, I was ranting about the number of people who like to think of themselves as leaders but who are just glorified (and overpaid) individual contributors. I started to describe the activities that leaders at any level need to do to get their team on the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 19, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Horror Stories
Somehow, we’ve ended up with very few leaders in our organizations and a whole heck of a lot of very highly paid individual contributors. I’m getting pretty frustrated by this. I know immediately that it’s a problem in an organization when the CEO starts talking about...
by Liane Davey | Oct 16, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, Right Words to Say
Leaders often choose the wrong issues to get involved in. They meddle in activities that can and should be addressed by their subordinates while neglecting decisions that only they can make. Many leaders are consumed by the minutiae and out of touch with the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 9, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
I was listening while a group of executives spoke about how to make their organization more agile. What was interesting, was that most of their comments referred to the speed they needed to move, rather than to their agility. I think it’s important to understand the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 5, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams
I’m toying around with writing another book; a thought that creates simultaneous excitement and terror. Given that it’s been three years since You First came out, I thought I better ramp up slowly. I’m going to write a few posts that capture some of the ideas I might...
