The GREAT MANAGING NEWSLETTER
How you can some of the most practical and effective management ideas available – for FREE!
Dear Manager
You know that being a consistently successful leader and manager takes work.
You also know there are times when new ideas can provide exactly the insight you need to get something done. Ideas about ways to:
- Get results from people who consistently don’t perform,
- Use measures for things that seemingly can’t be measured,
- Have people be more accountable even when they don’t want to be
- Increase cooperation and reduce resistance
That’s why we write Great Managing – to provide you with good ideas.
As experts in leadership and management, we have worked with thousands of managers in virtually every type of organization. Managers whose careers and reputations depend on their ability to get things done in the face of changing priorities, uncooperative people, and numerous other problems.
And one of the things we have learned from these managers is how much they look for and value new and innovative ways of thinking about issues and problems that really work. Ways of thinking that may be counter intuitive or take a different approach from what they are use to. Ways of thinking that allow them to breakthrough whatever obstacles, issues, or barriers they may have and get things done.
That’s why we write Great Managing – to provide you with new ways of thinking about issues and problems that work.
How do we know that the ideas work? Two ways.
First, we use them in our consulting practice and in our educational programs. So our livelihood and the success of our clients depends on them working.
Second, the people who apply them speak to their usefulness. Read what just a few of our 6,234 subscribers have to say about Great Managing:
What Will You Find in Great Managing?
Great Managing focuses on working with other people to produce results. The ideas provided focus on issues and topics that naturally arise whenever people have to work together to get something done. Issues such as:
- Getting people to give you what you need when you need it
- Building greater accountability in other individuals and groups
- Finding out how you are unknowingly contributing to the problem
- Using different types of communication to shift the results you get
- Seeing how to deal effectively with gossip and complaints
- Avoiding ineffective and unproductive meetings
- And many more
Great Managing is written in a clear, straightforward, and engaging conversational style. We assume you are busy, so we limit each issue to one management tip or technique, a few short quotes, and an occasional announcement – all in 4 pages or less. To see the current issue of Great Managing and receive the management tip, click here. To see a listing of the articles in the Great Managing Archive, click here.
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What Will You Get Out of Reading Great Managing?
Based on our experience with the people who subscribe, you can expect one or more of the following benefits:
- Learn new ways to have people cooperate with one another
- Enhance and expand your reputation for being effective
- Gain new skills and insights for how to get things done
- Learn new, highly effective techniques and forms of communication
Who Writes Great Managing?
Great Managing is published by Critical Path Consultants and is written by Jeffrey and Laurie Ford. Jeffrey is a management professor at one of the nation’s top business schools and a recognized expert on management. Laurie is the owner of Critical Path Consultants and is a nationally known management consultant. Yes, we are married. Each of us has a Ph.D. and over 25 years experience working with leaders and managers in organizations of all kinds, ranging from local school boards to NASA and Intel. We have written numerous articles and have worked with thousands of managers.
What we write is not “pop management”. We write sound, real world ideas for real world leaders and managers who have real things to get done.
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