People-managing: not just about getting people to do stuff for you
Last week a colleague noted “When you start working with other people, you spend a lot more time thinking about their paychecks than your own.”
AMEN TO THIS. Things were tight over at the Empire this month, and at a certain point I made the decision to pay my staff instead of myself this pay period. Oddly, it was WAY easier to do that than to even consider delaying everyone else’s checks.
How to measure the days when you work from home
When you work from home, sometimes you have to measure you accomplishments in interesting ways. Did you leave the house? Then it was probably a good day.
Three tips for writing tough business emails
When it comes down to writing tough business emails, my best advice can boil down to three action items:
The upside of being a hard boss
Of course my immediate goal as a manager is to get good results out of people, but my secondary goal is to give my staff bad-ass job skills that hopefully advances their careers in directions they want to go. Both these goals necessitate not dancing around it when someone’s failing. Not only do I do my own business a disservice when I put up with poor performance, but I see it as doing the staffer’s career development a disservice.