Management Shorts is a free newsletter for senior managers on leadership, management and teamwork – the key leverage points for improving the speed and quality of decision-making and execution.

• Meeting the Everyday Challenge of Innovation (pdf)
  A case study on how one start-up made the weekly sales meeting more fun AND more effective in driving sales (and some larger lessons about leadership and innovation)
  
  
• Weekly Meeting Blues (pdf)
  How to rapidly re-engineer your weekly staff meeting and make it a valuable use of everyone's time
  
  
• Learning How to Learn (pdf)
  How High Performers Succeed Through Continuous Learning
  
  
• Giving Your Boss Feedback (pdf)
  A case study on successfully confronting a difficult boss.
  
  
• Creating a "Virtuous Cycle" of Feedback (pdf)
  How you can create simple processes and structures that get employees talking directly to each other.
  
  
• Getting Useful Feedback (pdf)
  Practical tactics for getting the kind of feedback that will help you become a high performing manager.
  
  
• Managing a Team With a Star (pdf)
  How to balance ego and performance when one member of the team stands head and shoulders above the rest.
  
  
• Feedback Basics (pdf)
  Nuts and bolts of effective feedback -- a "bedrock" skill for managers and leaders.
  
  
• Hidden Dynamics of Hierarchy (pdf)
  How to deal with the "unexplainable" behavior of subordinates.
  
  
• Your Customer Has the Answer (pdf)
  How listening without an agenda can yield powerful results.
  
  
• Doing Your Best Work (pdf)
  Key factors that allow you to perform as a star.
  
  
• Interpersonal Mastery (pdf)
  Essential skills for leading, managing, and working cross-functionally.
  
  
• Traction Revisited (pdf)
  How to make sure execution happens.
  
  
• Appreciative Inquiry (pdf)
  How telling a positive story can fix an intractable problem.
  
  
• Practical Strategy Tool (pdf)
  Use the "Business Idea" (nope, its not the business model) to identify core competencies and competitive advantage.
  
  
• Have a "Good Fight" (pdf)
  How to focus your team on productive conflict on the business issues while reducing the destructive kind of personal conflict.
  
  
• Strategy Implementation and the Front Line Worker (pdf)
  Specific steps for aligning each employee with the organizations goals.
  
  
• Making the Decision Process Easier (pdf) -- Reader Favorite
  A simple model that will take the angst out of group decisions.
  
  
• Getting Traction (pdf)
  Specific steps for untangling complex, contentious issues.
  
  
• After the Layoff (pdf)
  Layoffs, mergers and other major changes can freeze people in their tracks. Learn how to help your people navigate the transition.
  
  
• Jekyll & Hyde of Leadership (pdf)
  Charismatic "narcissistic" leader or humble "Level 5" leader? Which one should be your role model?
  
  
• Deadly Dynamics (pdf) -- Reader Favorite
  What you can do to stop the other person from being so unreasonable.
  
  
• Strategy as Simple Rules (pdf)
  The most brilliant strategy is no good if front line workers don't know how to implement it. How to use "simple rules" to make strategy real.
  
  
• Short & Practical Management Tools (pdf)
  The inaugural issue of Management Shorts gives you a one page tool for getting your team to consensus quickly.
  
  

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