http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Wally+Bock Business Management Wally Bock Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=224690&ca=Business+Management If you read the articles about "wars for talent" and "succession crises" and the ones with titles like "where will tomorrow's leaders come from?" you could get the idea that the only leaders that really matter are the ones labeled "high potential." High potential leaders, the ones headed for the C-... Business Management Wally Bock Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=202422&ca=Business+Management Good leadership development begins with selecting people for their first leadership job so that the odds are good that they will succeed. Here are some pointers. Promote people who are already engaged. To me, "engaged" means that someone pitches in with energy and attention when there's work to be d... Career Wally Bock Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=206801&ca=Career Every year, thousands of men and women are "promoted" from individual contributor to a position where they're responsible for the performance of a group. It's one of the hardest transitions there is. Even when the choice is a good one, consciously made by the individual, it's a tough transition. Jo... Leadership Wally Bock Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=197953&ca=Leadership Leadership is an apprentice trade. You learn some of it in the classroom and from books. You learn most if it on the job. You learn it from others and you learn from experience. Here's how to get the most out of what you learn on the job. Improve your Odds of Getting it Right the First Time Get some... Business Management Wally Bock Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=176023&ca=Business+Management For more than twenty years I've been doing an exercise in the opening session of supervisory skills training programs. Participants identify a time when it was great to come to work. Then they develop a list of why it was great. In other words, they make a list of the characteristics of a great wor... Career Wally Bock Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=178096&ca=Career "Know thyself." The Greeks inscribed that message over the entryway to the temple of Apollo at Delphi, which they imagined to be the center of the earth. It's still a good idea. If you know yourself well, you've got a better chance of understanding what opportunities to seize and which to avoid. If... Business Management Wally Bock Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=162569&ca=Business+Management My friend, John, sat on the patio, complaining loudly. His company had just adopted the forced ranking system that General Electric (GE) uses for personnel evaluations. "It's wrong for us," John grumbled, "We work in project teams. We shouldn't be competing with each other to see who stays and who g... Business Management Wally Bock Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=160661&ca=Business+Management Ideas, including good ones, come naturally to human beings. As Robert Tucker said: "Anyone who has ever taken a shower has had a good idea." But good ideas are only the starting point for innovation. No less an authority than Joseph Schumpeter put it this way: "to carry any improvement into effect i... Career Wally Bock Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=169542&ca=Career When I was starting out as a manager and struggling to figure out how to do well, a wise and experienced friend gave me the following good advice. "Find the great ones," he said, "Then figure out what they do. Do the same things and you'll be a great one, too." That became my life's work. Over the l... Business Management Wally Bock Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=191853&ca=Business+Management It is part of the great business guru tradition to create an acronym of the first letters of significant words to spell out another significant word, like "success." This list is not in that tradition. But I often feel like the people who go for all the cute acronyms are more concerned with acronyms...