Why the change doesn’t stick?
There are several professions (Process Improvement Engineers, Business Process Analysts, Organizational Development Specialists, all Six Sigma and other Lean followers) that specifically deal with...
View ArticleSmall Business owners – Managers or not?
When I’m asked to provide consulting services not inside our familiar corporate environment, but to small businesses and start-ups, I frequently find myself in a somewhat awkward position. You see,...
View ArticleHow can I convince my team to try improving decision-making skills?”– From...
Following post on “The need for better decisions – why now?” “I completely agree with everything you said about the urgency we all should feel in regard to improving the quality of our decisions. But...
View ArticleWorking patterns – the way we do things
A working pattern comes to life when we start doing something systematically and repeatedly. It could be something very basic, such as always reading your morning e-mails with a cup of coffee in hand...
View ArticleWorking patterns: Why do we constantly create new problems by trying to solve...
This week we continue to discuss the reasons for why do we make our own life harder by creating new problems when solving the existing ones. Here is what you should be aware of: 3. Blurred line...
View ArticleWorking patterns: The trap of “best practices”
When you start thinking about it, the concept of “best practice” seems very logical – it’s supposed to be the best way to achieve the desired results when dealing with a certain task, which was already...
View ArticleLessons Learned: How to Deal with Failure
A few weeks ago a friend sent me an amazing piece of memorabilia – a journal article from the year 1905. It made such an impression on me that I immediately decided to share its wisdom on the ever...
View ArticleA Happy New Year present for my readers: my Top 5 Favorite Movies for Managers
As Season Greetings are almost upon us and Anyworksmart will traditionally go into well-deserved recess for the next month, I decided to finish the year with something light yet meaningful in order to...
View ArticleWhy it’s so hard to follow schedules?
There is nothing new in the fact that timelines established for the projects are rarely met. Actually, we got so used to this part of workplace reality that we consider it a problem only in the most...
View ArticleShould we listen to “Gurus”?
“Guess correctly three times and they’ll call you an expert” – said a wise man. In the age of Internet and other mass-media guessing has become especially easy, as every correct prediction could be...
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