Tag: management skill
When you can't get a manager – get a friend..
In a recent post on the sacking of Luis Felipe Scolari, we asked, if not him, then who? Well, that has been answered by the appointment Guus Hiddink as Chelsea manager. Leaving aside the football/soccer side of it, this is also likely to be problematically. Hiddink is widely reported to be a personal friend of [...]
Why your business needs an (internal) blog
In most business organisations, email has become the standard way of sending information backwards and forwards. If a manager needs to send something to the team, they just send an email. Sales figures, customer service reports, whatever. So far so good – but using email as a management tool has a number of weaknesses that [...]
Why the sacking of Luiz Felipe Scolari is bad for all managers
Luiz Felipe Scolari (Big Phil) was sacked yesterday as manager of Chelsea football club. For non British readers or those who don’t follow football, Chelsea are owned by Billionaire Russian oil tycoon Roman Abramovitch. Abramovitch is said to be one of the richest people living in the UK in 2009. Scolari is a football manager [...]
Here are a few more good management characteristics
Continuing our series on management skills and characteristics of a good manager, this time we look at how a manager can ask someone to do something. Is this how your manager asks you to do something? We would call this leading from the front. Shouting at everyone to keep up, keep in line, get work [...]
10 Management mistakes
This post in Personnel today is very interesting. We suggest that the type of manager referred to would view paying the relatively small sum of #20 as a waste of money. And then go on to waste 20 or 30 times that in hidden costs. Jonathan Senior Chartered Manager
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