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• EFFECTIVE CORPORATE DECISION MAKING: STEP FOUR INDICATORS OF DECISION SUCCESS

  By Terry Joseph Busch on May 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  To be a manager is to make countless individual decisions for which you will personally be held responsible and accountable. However, in most organizations managers collectively are also required to occasionally come together at various levels to decide and implement… Read More ›

• EFFECTIVE CORPORATE DECISION MAKING: STEP THREE HOW WE DECIDE AND UNANIMITY OF SUPPORT

  By Terry Joseph Busch on May 7, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  To be a manager is to make countless individual decisions for which you will personally be held responsible and accountable. However, in most organizations managers collectively are also required to occasionally come together at various levels to decide and implement… Read More ›

• EFFECTIVE CORPORATE DECISION MAKING: STEP TWO GROUP MEMBER REQUIREMENTS

  By Terry Joseph Busch on May 4, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  To be a manager is to make countless individual decisions for which you will personally be held responsible and accountable. However, in most organizations managers collectively are also required to occasionally come together at various levels to decide and implement… Read More ›

• EFFECTIVE “CORPORATE” DECISION MAKING: STEP ONE THE PURPOSE AND REQUIREMENTS OF MEETINGS

  By Terry Joseph Busch on April 27, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  To be a manager is to make countless individual decisions for which you will personally be held responsible and accountable. However, in most organizations managers collectively are also required to occasionally come together at various levels to decide and implement… Read More ›

• GOOD MANAGEMENT: THE ART OF NUDGING

  By Terry Joseph Busch on April 16, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  I once asked a senior manager colleague what she considered the “core competency” of a good manager. “the art of Effective Nudging“, she replied. I knew at once what she meant as I had done my fair share of it… Read More ›

• UNDERSTANDING HUMAN NATURE

  By Terry Joseph Busch on April 10, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Unique though we all are in our individual ways, there remains this thing called HUMAN NATURE.  Specifically, the vast majority of we humans tend to behave in rather predictable ways confronted with similar situations, especially the need to adjust to and accept… Read More ›

• GOOD MANAGERS WORK AT IT

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 18, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  When different people, focusing on different fields of endeavor and at different times all end up sending us the same message, seems to me we ought to pay attention.  So consider the following message from four separate authors regarding the… Read More ›

• LEADERSHIP: SOME UNAVOIDABLE REALITIES

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 10, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  I have been studying, writing about, and addressing the subject of leadership in many forums for over 30 years. While I still would not consider myself an expert on the subject — especially on whether my behavior at times measures… Read More ›

• ACCOUNTABILITY: THE SIMPLE MANAGEMENT SECRET OF THE PAUL O’NEILL STORY

  By Terry Joseph Busch on March 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Chapter four of Charles Duhigg’s fascinating and highly insightful book “The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” is entitled“Keystone Habits or the Ballad of Paul O”Neill”.  This chapter has drawn a lot of… Read More ›

• PLAYING THE HAND YOU’RE DEALT

  By Terry Joseph Busch on February 6, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Most managers fantasize at some point about being handed the “DREAM TEAM” assignment.  You know, a staff filled with self-starting, bright, multi-talented all-stars who basically need little management or oversight at all.  All we would need to do is to… Read More ›