Are you an effective manager?

I’ve been slacking on the “Lead” part of “Lead.Learn.Live.”  I’ve been distracted with “Premium” Hot Chocolate, Grilled Cheese sandwiches and painted pumpkins inspired by Jackson Pollock.  Here’s one of two leadership primers to kick off the coming week.

The Harvard Business Review authors of Does Management Really Work? conducted research over a 10-year period involving thousands of organizations to determine whether companies adhere to three practices that are considered essential elements of good management.  Before we get to the 3 basic elements, two of the key findings of this research were:

1) Many organizations throughout the world are very badly managed

2) Effective Management execution on the basic practices is strongly correlated with better results

Take a pause before hitting the “read more” link.  (I’ve already done it…so play along.)  What exactly are these 3 essential management practices?

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Source: Adapted from Gapingvoid

Monday Morning Wake-Up Call: “Op op op op – Oppan Gangnam Style”

A first for Lead.Learn.Live.  Rap Music.  This song is called “Gangnam Style” from South Korean Rapper Psy.  This video has been watch over 400,000,000 times on YouTube – the 9th most watched video clip ever.  If this doesn’t get you up and at it on a Monday morning…nothing will.  Volume up!


I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year…

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“I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find out. You don’t know—you haven’t done it yet. You must live life at the top of your voice! At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the echoes. I learned a lesson years ago…Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.”

~Ray Bradbury (answering an interviewer’s question on how important optimism has been in his career)


Let’s Go!


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Related Post: I’ve never worked a day in my life… (Ray Bradbury)

Gaga

Lady Gaga, quote, quotation, average, success, self-help, inspiration

“I am terrified…of being average.”

~ Lady Gaga


Sources: Image – Magic Spells.  Quote: quote-book via creatingaquietmind.