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July 27, 2005
- Are You a Disenchanted Manager?
WSJ.com – Cubicle Culture (subscription required):
”… a survey commissioned last year by the Concours Group, an executive education, research and consulting firm … found that only 62% of managers strongly or moderately agree that ‘I really care about the fate of this organization,’ and only half were glad they chose to work at their company over another. Moreover, only 35% of managers said their organization inspired the best in them. Tammy Erickson, an executive officer of the Concours Group, calls the results ‘enough to make you cry.’ She says she’s dismayed ‘that the very people you’re counting on to engage other people are themselves feeling so disenchanted with what they’re doing.’”
The Concours Group press release provides more info.
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Using Consultants for Credibility
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In “Where do you get your advice?,” Seth Godin talks about how companies buy credibility from consultants:
“If McKinsey said to close the plant, then it’s a lot easier to sell your board. If you had gotten precisely the same advice from precisely the same 26-year-old Harvard MBA but she’d been in your strategy group instead [...]
Give up control to get control
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Years ago I attended the Aviara Golf Academy trying to improve my game. Well, I’m still not a good golfer, though it’s not their fault. They taught me a lot.
One lesson had to do with control. We all want to hit the ball far and we all want to hit it straight. As a relatively [...]
LeadershipIQ.com recently announced the results of its four-year study of why CEOs are fired or forced out. The study, based on interviews with 1,087 board members from 286 public, private, business and healthcare organizations, found that chief executives were fired, or otherwise forced out as a result of:
Mismanaging change (31%)Ignoring customers (28%)Tolerating low performers (27%)Denying [...]
- Happy New Year!
For many of my public enterprise friends, today begins a new fiscal year. New budgets (well, once it finally gets approved), new projects, new possibilities. Here’s to a great FY2006!
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