Micromanagement is a curse word in the world of business. What is micromanagement? This article is written with the micromanager in mind, if you micromanage you are destroying your work environment. You are standing in your employee’s way. Why do managers get carried away in details? Do you know if you are micromanaging in the first place, and what are the signs to look for? I am going to take a look at the signs of micromanagement presence and the short term and long term effects of micromanagement.
Why is Micromanagement a bad thing?
First I want to discuss the problems with …
Who plays more at work? I have been thinking about this lately after reading a Norwegian blog where the author is forming a theory that Men play more at work than Women.
Is there a difference in the “fun at work” – level in male dominated environments contra female dominated?
Is there a difference between the sexes of the leader?
Is there any research made in this field? Just asking.
I am browsing my blog today. I have been blogging about leadership and motivation since June 2008. I decided to look back to find the old dusty posts that’s all forgotten. I am walking down memory lane shining light into the darkest places of my blog. Looking back at these old posts is refreshing my memory. I hope you will enjoy this day at the museum as much as I did today. I found five blog posts with a lot of dust on them.
Lift the Spirit
I was for sure experiencing a great time at work in June 2008, I can …
I have been tweaking my blog today to create better content for you. I have recently just started another blog about blogging. So I am implementing some of my own teaching right here at Never Mind the Manager.
The bounce project
At Hostbeetle.com I am running a bounce project. This is a project to reduce the amount of visitors that just drop by, take a quick look and disappear again. You can read more about it here.
The minor update today:
Re-arranged some text, added some text, added headers and hopefully my article about micromanagement had its makeover.
I need to ask you a favor
I …
Yesterday was one of those days where making food seemed like a huge task*, we had so many other things to do. So we decided to order pizza. We experienced extremely poor customer service and I will tell you why here at my blog. What people working with customer care ironically seem to forget is the need of the customers and they try to fix or serve a need that is in no need of service. I find this funny, so I need to elaborate on this today.
Postponed Dinner
I ordered pizza online with an estimated time of delivery approximately within …
Why should you have the right attitude? There is one factor that will have a huge impact on almost everything you do in life. Your attitude will determine the outcome of your goals. Did you know that it is possible to choose your attitude? Have you ever been given a task that seemed impossible? What was the outcome? You attitude might actually prevent you from success even before you get the chance to try, why is that? Did you know that your attitude can prevent you from trying? What can we do about it?
Learned Helplessness
I have been reading Learned Optimism: …
I have just put together a list of motivational blog posts that I have found lately. I hope you will enjoy these posts as much as I did. I do also recommend you to visit the main blogs where these articles are posted, as they are just not single great post, but they are a part of good blogs. I hope you will find these posts useful as I have tried to compile different kind of posts about motivation to provide you with different views on the topic. Enjoy!
Motivate yourself without hard deadlines
This is a rather long blog post, but …
Have you ever tried to achieve a task and failed? What do you do when it isn’t working? Do you feel frustrated when you do not reach your goal? Is it something wrong with your goal? Should you settle with a C paper when you can get an A? How can you manage to reach your goal, when you have failed and failed again?
Confucius was a wise man and one quote that I do love is this one “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
There is a lot true …
This is “snatched” from my book in progress. I am currently writing a book with the working title: “How to Become a GREAT Employee and Succeed at Work” – This is from the preface, raw, yet unedited. I have only one ambition and it is to write around 100-120 pages packed with good tips on how to become a great employee. I am so far written 75 pages and have drafts for yet four more chapters. I hope you enjoy this little preview.
Before you start to read this book, we need to determine if you have the right job in the …
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