One of my favorite pieces of career advice to give people goes something like this: Think of your career as a sailboat. You can let…
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Author: Andrew Robertson
Announcement: People-Focused Newsletter
It has been two and a half years since we published the book Leadership Is About People. People have bought it and read it and…
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Focusing on the Goal
From an email I wrote to a team lead… This is very important. “What is the Goal?” That question is your antidote…
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Change
If you are a team leader and you want your team to try a new way of doing things, then you are probably going to…
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Projects and Success: The Importance of the Human Aspects
I define project success as achieving the project goal. Once you really understand your goal, then success is achieved by leading your project team to…
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Trust
What if you gave every employee a small cash fund and a few hours each month to spend as they wished – as long as…
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How Everything Works
Professor Cannon I mostly learned the basics of control theory from Professor Bob Cannon while I was in graduate school at Stanford. Every once in a while, Professor Cannon…
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