Even CEOs can change!
Dear Geese, In last week’s blog (360-evaluation gone bad!), you showed what NOT to do around the feedback process. If I may, I’d like to counter with a story about an effective use of feedback involving our CEO. A...
Greg Giesen
The Laughing Leader
360 Performance Evaluation Gone Bad!
Dear Geese, You’ve referenced the importance of getting feedback in previous blogs and I couldn’t agree with you more. With that said, what about the manager who solicits feedback and then does nothing with it? Personally, I think that’s worse....
Why Do We Need Team Building?
Dear Geese, My staff cringes whenever I bring up the topic of team building. Talk about resistance! Last year we went to a baseball game as a group but I’m not sure anything was accomplished. Oh wait, we did decide...
Dear Geese: “Been there, done that!R...
Dear Geese, Why do senior executives stop attending management-training classes? Is it because they think they already know all there is to know about management and leadership or are they simply done learning? I ask because our d...
Dear Geese: “I disagree with your premi...
Dear Geese, I’ve been a CEO and top executive for many years and I wanted to weigh in after reading your last blog, It’s Not My Problem! In short, I disagree with your premise. You cannot run an organization like...
Dear Geese: “It’s not my problem!...
Dear Geese, Two of my co-workers have been at odds with each other for some time now. For me personally, I can work with both of them just fine. Whatever difference they may have with each other has absolutely no...
Dear Geese: “I have an annoying coworke...
Dear Geese, One of my coworkers recently attended a Myers-Briggs workshop and has been extremely annoying ever since. Now she judges everyone, puts people in categories and uses a lot of 4-letter words. Get it, 4-letter words! But...
Dear Geese: “My Company has too Many Me...
Dear Geese: This is so sad it’s almost comical. We have too many meetings at my company. Why, we’ve gotten to the point where we can’t even make a decision without having a meeting. But the bigger problem is how...
How a Day at the Funeral Home Changed My Life...
Part IV: How a Day at the Funeral Home Changed My Life Forever: “I see dead people.” “Did you just say the body is in the van?” “Yeah, I thought about FedExing him over but remembered you wanted the full exp...
How a Day at the Funeral Home Changed My Life...
Part III: How a Day at the Funeral Home Changed My Life Forever, Part III: “That could have been my son.” I was seeing dead people. That’s right, dead people. I know; sounds like I’ve lost my mind, right? Here I...
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