Why do Australian Managers “performance manage people out” ? Why don’t we just “Performance Manage” them continuously ?? What we can learn from the high performance culture in the AFL.
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Book Review : The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
By Andrew Leunig on May 30, 2011 in Blog, Book Reviews, Business Issues, Business Models, Communication, Insights, Learning and Growth, Personal Effectiveness, Personal Improvement, Teamwork
Surgeon Gawande tells a ripping yarn about a potentially dry subject. Today’s professionals have an almost impossible task to manage complexity. Gawande outlines the history, logic, benefits and challenges of creating and using checklists in a complex professional environment.
Book Review: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
By Andrew Leunig on March 1, 2011 in Belief Systems, Blog, Book Reviews, Communication, Leadership, Learning and Growth, Life Balance, Mental Health, Personal Effectiveness, Personal Energy Levels, Personal Improvement, Teamwork
Maybe you can be more successful by making a small adjustment or simply stopping counter-productive behavior. In this book Leadership expert Goldsmith explains this logic and more. He has a seven step process to make eliminate your bad habits.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
By Andrew Leunig on October 7, 2010 in Belief Systems, Blog, Book Reviews, Business Issues, Business Models, Case Studies, Insights, Personal Improvement, Strategy, Teamwork, Turnarounds
This is a story about superior insight constructed around a Baseball story. Michael Lewis tells the story of how Billy Beane, general manager of Oakland Athletics, could for several years win more games than anyone else with a team payroll a fraction of the majors.
First Observe, then implement
Some things can be rushed. Often it is better to just adapt solutions that fit with how people are already working.
Wikinomics – How mass collaboration changes everything
By Andrew Leunig on July 26, 2009 in Blog, Book Reviews, Business Issues, Business Models, Communication, Insights, Other Stuff, Strategy, Teamwork, Technology
Ever wanted to harness the spare time of people that you have never met to create value ? Seriously ?