Month: May 2016
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Why Top Executives Keep Employees In The Dark
Have you ever noticed that most companies don’t spend a lot of time telling you “how thingsĀ get done around here?” Shockingly, very little information is available explicitly. Our management guru of choice: Is it Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Tom Peters, Peter Drucker, who? What books do we read, what discipline do we follow? The history,…
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Edit Yourself First
One time there was this senior executive – okay, he was the head of my huge law enforcement agency – who really, really, really took writing to heart. Every month I gave him a draft monthly column for the magazine. And every month he sent it back to me – I could almost hear him…