Confessions Of A Reformed Control Freak The Power Point

Confessions of a Reformed Control Freak ©

The Top Ten Sins Most Managers Make & How to Avoid Them ©

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B. R. Smith

Managers vs. Leaders

Worth Remembering …

“The real impediment to producing a higher quality product more efficiently aren’t the workers, union or non-union, it’s management”

- Kenneth Iverson

The Top Ten Sins Most Managers Make & How to Avoid Them 2


21st Century Management


“We are being judged by a new yardstick; not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.”

- Daniel Goleman Ph.D. – Emotional Intelligence


Confession Number One

• There is no such thing as common sense.

There is no such thing as “Common Sense”

Common Sense Revisited


“We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us”

- Francois La Rochefoucald



Confession Number Two

You Can’t Motivate People


Need + Attitude = WIIFM


“it is only when a person has their own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.”

- Frederick Herzberg


Confession Number Three

You Ruin Good People by Promoting Them


Sustainers and Achievers


“I was actually too exhausted to realize at the moment that my life’s purpose had been achieved.”

- Robert Edwin Peary


Confession Number Four

You Don’t Have to Know Everything


No Smoke & Mirrors


“Even in a hierarchy people can be equal as thinkers.”

- Nancy

Kline


Confession Number Five

You’re Not The Most Important

Person in The Conversation


Communication Takes Two


“Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.”

- Robert Greenleaf


Confession Number Six

Park Your Ego at the Door; It’s not About Being Right


Resist Micro – Managing


“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself too seriously.

- Norman Vincent Peale


Confession Number Seven

You Can’t Control Everything

All of The Time


Delegation 101


“You establish some objectives for them, provide some incentive, and try not to direct the detailed way in which they do their work.”

- David Packard - HP


Confession Number Eight

You Can’t Demand Respect;

Respect is Reciprocal


Personal Code of Conduct


“You get what you give”

- Unknown


Confession Number Nine

People Hear What They See

– Not What You Say


Leading by Example


“Leaders walk their talk; in true leaders there is no gap between the theories they espouse and their practice.”

- Warren Bennis


Confession Number Ten

There Aren’t Any Negatives;

Everything is Positive


Your Attitude is Everything


“It depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves.”

- Carl Gustav Jung


Coaches, Mentors & Managers


“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to keep it to oneself.”

- Oscar Wilde

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