In a chat with a surgeon this past weekend I heard phrase in the title for the first time. It essentially suggests that when a surgeon is doing a tricky procedure after they cut open the patient but before doing the essential work they reduce the risk of surprise bleeding. They tie off all the [...]
Someone said to me today; “It’s not a coaching situation. What’s needed is management.” That really resonated with me. In the past I’ve written about the differences between Managing and Leading. Elsewhere I’ve written about the differences between training [filling an empty vessel], mentoring [being an evolutionary elder pointing people in the right direction] and [...]
I’ve written before that Managing and Leadership are different aspects of the work a leader does. Managing is that part that’s like a border collie barking at sheep to get them focused on doing their ‘eating grass’ job. Leading is like a racehorse in the lead down the backstretch. The horse is seemingly pulling all [...]
I learned about this terrific idea recently. As part of hiring people and then through the performance review process create a list of ways that they like to be motivated. The biggest part of this is asking them from time about what motivates them. Then when the time comes you’ll know what should work. This [...]
