Three types of Business Communications. The Only Three Ways to Think and Communicate. A Way is not a person or a position; a Way is a way to think and communicate. I will describe the three types; Way One, Way Two and Way Three. They are very different, but also very connected. There is a [...]
How do you Communicate your Business Vision? Stop talking about Vision. Play it! Do you play an instrument? You do? The piano? I’ve never heard a piano before, but I understand it’s a beautiful instrument. What does this piano sound like? Really ponder that question for a minute. Can you describe sound? Sound, like your [...]
In my experience, a micromanager micromanages for three main reasons. First, they were once the subject matter expert on the particular task they now are responsible for managing. The micomanager’s manager must mentor the necessary skills for strategy-management, so the alleged ‘micro’manger can mentor the people performing the tasks. If the ‘micro’manager is mentoring on [...]
Step 1. Way Two People Development. The first desired result of a Way One is People Development. People development consists of mentoring. Mentoring by a Way One consists of developing their direct reports to be effective, qualified Way Twos and maybe even the next great Way One one day. This is a personal result over [...]
Way One: The Way Ones are the chief vision officers. They are the dreamers, the innovators, and the grand architects. They are the idea men and women who see a problem or a challenge and say, “Why not?” They are the entrepreneurs who are able to come along and do what others have adamantly said could [...]
Each Way in a company, regardless of the size of the company or the position one may occupy, has only two desired results. The first result is a ‘people result’ and the second is a ‘position result’ in that order of importance. This is the first shift in thinking to power ROI with the ROE [...]
Return on investment is the investment of time, money and energy. There is only so much time and money and just like time and money, energy can be exhausted too. It’s easy to measure how much time we have and how much money we have left, but energy is something that is hard to explain, [...]
Way Three: The Way Threes are the vision coordinators. They are the what to the Way Twos’ how. In many senses, they play the most important role in any organization. If you take care of the little things, the big things will take care of themselves, meaning if you pay attention to detail in carrying out tasks, then the business objectives will [...]
Way Two: There are days when the Way Two will tell you it’s like the lyrics to the Stealers Wheel hit from the 1970s: “Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you.” Conventional wisdom says that an idea without action is a pipe dream. But [...]