There’s a Wrong Way to Do Things.
This weekend, my wife and I decided to paint our master bedroom. We've renovated every other upstairs room in our house, so it was time to finish ours. We asked (told) our kids to help so we could do it all in a weekend.
Saturday morning we woke the kids (they love to sleep in), had breakfast and then started to remove all the furniture, etc. from the room. My wife and son patched holes and dug out/repair cracks in the walls. Then we cleaned and got all the tools out. Because we got started a bit later than we thought, we had to break for lunch before we really got started.
Why does everything take longer than you imagine it will?...
The Management Gap
I just got back from a Leadership conference. Very well done with speakers from all over America.
At these conferences, I try to come away with a new business principle that I want to work on. This time it's hard to pick just one, but one had a huge impact on me. It's all about trust; although on the surface it may not appear that way.
Andy Stanley explained how we as managers have 2 concepts that present themselves to us each day. Expectations and Experience.
We all have expectations that we have for our company, our employees and ourselves. We hopefully communicate them in such a fashion/manner that our expectations turn into great experiences.
Hopefully these experiences fulfill our expectations. But often they...