The Association of Management Consultants Firms hosted a daylong event at the Union Club in New York this week. It reminded me of my days working in British Parliament. You know that feeling of clubish collusion. Where the walls are adorned with men in wigs Rembrandt type paintings and the furniture is old warn leather [...]
It interests me how a company that works with Union leadership develops those leaders to go into management. It is an interesting and complex issue. The question I have is a union leader operating with different values and mission than the company? If that is true then how do you help midigate the value conflict [...]
I had the opportunity this week to speak at the Midwest Energy Association and in presenting I said to the audience something I learned from a speech coach, Bob Boylan, twenty years ago. That is that you should singularly have one point, that your audience should walk away with. After the interaction/presentation a member of [...]
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Travelling south tonight flying first class and regardless of ones status and how much you pay for a ticket we have become a classless society all passenger are treated equal. I must say the improvement in flying Delta is not the space it is the authenticity of the attendents they are really appolgetic. The lack [...]
What are the right questions for leaders to ask? Like notorious law school professors who interrogate their students until the “truth” appears, many business leaders hold meetings where they pepper employees with rapid-fire questions. But too often managers’ questions are designed to show off their own knowledge rather than actually solicit new information or ideas. [...]
By Gary B. Cohen When the Dow Jones industrial average goes from over 14,000 to under 7,000 in roughly a year’s time, not much is certain. Will your chief supplier survive the credit crunch? Will customers return to their old spending habits or continue to conserve? Is another industry primed for a crash? Our government [...]
By Steve Watkins Posted 10/15/2009 06:14 PM ET Hold people accountable and you’ll get more productivity and profit. Here’s how: • Define it. Make sure your people know what you mean. Accountability comes down to people doing what they said they would in the time frame they set, says Linda Finkle, founder and CEO of [...]
The Power of the Right Questions By Gary P. Cohen Voltaire wrote, “Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.” If you want to be judged well, ask the right questions. Most leaders ask questions with the hopes of generating thought, focus, and action from the listener, but too often their questions are [...]
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I am at my younger daughter’s volleyball game this afernoon and notice how quickly each team tries to get the ball over the net as compaired with my older daughters team. I am struck by the similarities of new leaders verse experienced leaders. The more experienced leader tends to see keeping the ball on their [...]
Leadership Development Based on Questions© by Sandra Williams Coworkers can’t excel if the leader is making all the decisions, which is why leadership development that’s based on questions succeeds.Leaders who answer too many questions are creating more work for themselves and depriving coworkers of participating in their company’s growth according to Gar B. Cohen in [...]
Today it is my great pleasure to interview Gary B Cohen author of a great book that I’ve just read called “Just Ask Leadership – Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions.” Gary, as President and co-founder of ACI Telecentrics grew that company from two people to 2,200 employees and reached $32 million in [...]
Gary, I am at the airport of Montreal checking book, and sure enough your book is displayed here at the forefront with all the other bestsellers. That’s cool!!! Chady
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