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When Oliver Cummings and I created the Making Strategy Real workshop for MindPrep Resource Center (www.mindprep.com) we used a dozen “known truth” to guide our design. Now the question is whether these pre-pandemic truths will hold up in a post-pandemic world. Here are some initial thoughts: 2019 2021 The business environment is always evolving. Wow!…
What is Financial Management? Today’s post for A Middle Managers Guide to Finance provides middle managers a quick outline of financial management. And, hopefully, in a manner that is relatively painless. Feel free to comment at the end of the post! I’m going to guess that as a middle manager, you probably await finance reports that signal to you…
By Oliver W. Cummings 1 May 2020 Fundamentally, the act of being a leader involves followers and knowing what to do is not sufficient to inspire followers’ trust; knowing how to go about what you do is what makes for real leadership. And, the “how” is very much tied up in facilitative relationship building. This…
By Oliver W. Cummings 29/04/2020 Bill asked a question in the previous post on the facilitative manager and trust. In essence the question was, “In relation to the pandemic, is trust ‘flipped’ in that we need the workers to trust us more than we need to trust them?” It is an important question. In the…
By Oliver W. Cummings 4-17-2020 This post focuses on the fourth of the things beyond using good foundational management skills that the facilitative manager will do. Believe, but not too much Care, but not too much Feel, but not too much Foster trust, but not too much Have something you can’t have too much of:…
By Oliver W. Cummings, 4/3/2020 Feedback from my previous post: I’ve been using this space to provide a little continuity for this series of posts on facilitative management. This time, however, the pandemic has intervened, and I am foregoing comments on the prior post. Instead, I am going to provide some things I learned from…
The phrase Cash is King is frequently used when educators begin imparting business management wisdom upon unsuspecting students or when owners of family businesses prepare others to assume owner responsibilities. Understanding how cash flows through your company will definitely enhance your strategic thinking skills. Cash is the vital fuel used to run the engines of…
By Oliver W. Cummings Feedback from my previous blog post, What It Takes to Be A Facilitative Manager – Part 1: Believe, But Not Too Much A comment and question: It seems to me that teaching is a possible “missing link” in many leadership skills sets. Is there a responsibility for middle managers to see…
Did you catch my blog about the world of fictional detectives and how they solve complex problems? I’ve had requests ever since that post to bring back these detectives and unpack the strategic thinking skills that make them so successful in solving a wide range of issues. Below you will find some tidbits of advice…
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