I was hiking out of Zermatt this past week, climbing up on the flanks of the Matterhorn. Besides being engulfed by the staggering beauty of the area and honestly the intimidating presence of the Matterhorn (see the picture of the trail up)… I was also aware of my heart pumping. There was no way to climb without my heart pumping harder. My body simply needed more oxygen to be able to climb. It’s the same in business with parallel demands ...
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Dashboards can be invaluable, power points can have a life span measured in minutes, but they both really reflect just the surface of your system for managing information. In business, some people call such a system an “Executive Information System” (EIS), but actually we all have and use some type of system for managing or getting the most value out of information we’re in contact with. But here’s the interesting wrinkle, your ability to improve your system may be strongly impaired ...
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Let me give you 4 reasons why using spreadsheets is a bad idea, actually a
really expensive bad idea at your place of work. And I’m writing this as
someone who has sat in too many meetings where spreadsheets are the
primary tool for displaying and tracking data and status. What I’m talking
about is using spreadsheets as primarily a table… because its easier to
work in, than use the tables in Word or some other application.
Let me give you a ...
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We just completed a release of ManagePro 11 last week, and one of the things
our Press Release was focusing on was differentiating ManagePro. The
headline was, “ManagePro™ 11, the “Brain Friendly” Tool When it Comes to
Getting Stuff Done.” Your brain, it turns out, not the software feature list,
has a lot to do wiith what software is appealing and how you differentiate
between choices. Let me share a couple of secrets with you about that.
First of all, ...
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Posted by: Rodney Brim
What drives engagement at your work place? What disrupts it? I bet you have
an answer to that second question, if not the first. In this blog I want to
share a couple of different insights into what makes employee engagement
go up… and down. By the way, how engaged are you at where you work?…
and the reason why?
Engagement is sort of a funny thing, the very things that set us up to feel
disengaged, you know where you ...
Posted by: Rodney Brim
Feedback. Has anyone told you, it pays to be good at giving and receiving it?
Consider yourself so informed 
Actually being good at feedback is a gift
to yourself, even better than being lucky when you look inside. So if you
haven’t been overwhelmed with luck lately, keep reading I have something
good to share with you.
Being good at giving feedback, both positive and challenging is something
that just makes life work better, not to mention ...
Have you ever thought about what management should really do?
I mean, if management served, instead of ruled… if it guided instead of
dispatched, held itself more accountable than anyone else… if it
followed-up instead of doing the demand and disappear number…
Have you ever wondered? About management that is?
If so, keep reading, I want to share some thoughts with you.
You see, in my opinion, management is the work area that most needs an
INNOVATIVE overhaul in today’s world.
But you ...
Continue Reading →I want to share two secrets with you in this blog. Secrets that some of our
customers have used to improve productivity by 10% in just two short
months. We would all like to experience that, right? Would you like to
know how? Well let me show you by revealing a couple of secrets.
#1 The first secret is that small and big companies, (and we work with
some of the ...
Posted by: Rodney Brim
Does part of what you do for a living involve managing people? Do you get
things done through coordinating the effort of others? If this is you,
do you know how you create value? That came out wrong,
let me ask it this way, “Are you sure you create value by what you do?”
I know, maybe it sounds like a dumb question, but a majority of the people
in management I interface with actually don’t know ...
