by Dwayne Phillips Please hire some editors in your business. They are need in many more ways than most persons expect. This is a post about editors—the human variety who read and change what others write. First, we have editors who collect writings from a variety of persons and combine them into one writing. Their […]
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Please Hire Some Editors
August 9th, 2018 · No Comments
Tags: Management · People · Writing
Persons and Messages
July 2nd, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The message to a person should be the same as the message about a person. What I say to a person is the same as what I say about a person. At least it should be. In other words, I say the same thing when the person is in the room as […]
Tags: Communication · Management · People
Archeological Digs on Projects
February 26th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes digging down into the hidden history of a project helps the project crawl out of a hole. And, of course, sometimes not. I used to do this frequently. I was given a project that had “lost its way” or “fallen out of favor” or simply been left to rot in the […]
Tags: Management
Something We Can Accomplish
February 19th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Instead of trying the magnificent, perhaps we should try something we can accomplish. Many problems confront us everyday. These are all opportunities to excel. Really, not just for those silly posters, but these are actually opportunities for us to accomplish something and do some good for us and someone else. It seems […]
Tags: Change · Customer · Management · Scale
The Second or Third Request
January 25th, 2018 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes you are best served and serving if you ignore a request or two. Me: The thing the boss just asked for, what is it? How do you do it? Older Co-worker: What? Oh never mind. Me: But the boss wants it, real quick, it is important. Right? Older Co-worker: Forget about […]
Tags: Conversation · Management
We Know It’s Broken, but…
December 7th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips For some reason (and we have a lot of these reasons), we just let things go when we know better. Yes, that thing doesn’t work right, but you know, we just don’t fix it because… I don’t like fixing things It is someone else’s problem, they broke it or they installed it […]
Tags: Excuses · Management · People
We Don’t Need Permission…
November 16th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some of us don’t want to stretch things at work. Stretching can create tension, and tension is, well, tense. It is okay. Go ahead and do it. I wish I remember where I was when I first heard or read the statement, You don’t need permission to do your job well. I […]
Tags: Change · Management · Permission
An Interaction Exercise
November 2nd, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Here is a simple exercise you can use with your team to learn something about how well you work together. Step 1: Get a deck of playing cards. Step 2: Hand every person on your team some cards. Hand some person a couple of cards and hand some persons a dozen cards. […]
Tags: Communication · Consulting · Group · Management · Meetings
The Play (Project) Isn’t Over
October 23rd, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The most important decision about a project may be when we say, “It is over.” Watching college (semi- or mostly-professional) football this weekend. Several times today I see a 19 to 21-year old score a touchdown and in great glee make enough of the wrong motions to be flagged for excessive celebration […]
Tags: Clarity · Decide · Management
Outsiders and Risk on Projects
October 12th, 2017 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips We review A fundamental of project planning, execution, and incurring risk. Risk is the answer to the question, “What could possibly go wrong?” The answer is, “Many things could go wrong.” Some of the possible wrong, however, is avoidable. We can prepare better and ensure we do better. The key word in […]
Tags: Management · Risk