People don’t leave jobs, they leave poor managers. They may join for the company, for the opportunity, for the skills or the money, but at the end of the day, they leave poor managers.

If you’re not convinced, try this visualization.

Have you ever had to work for, or work with, a bad manager? You may not remember exactly how bad it was, but ask your friends, ask your significant other, they’ll remember and be able to tell you the type of impact it had on you. You might be working for one right now. Think about the impact of that person on you and those around you? How did you feel day in and day out?

Did you find yourself productive or drained? Successful or Stressed?

If you worked for a bad manager, then the chances are very good that you did not find yourself productive or successful.

When you are working for a bad manager all problems are magnified.  Your pay is too low and your vacation too short, even your chair isn’t good enough. You aren’t...

The planned post I had for this week has changed. This week I’m sharing one of my mistakes. 

Everyone makes mistakes on their journey, myself included. I’ll share the big one with you in the hopes that you learn something from my errors.

For those of you who have read my book, you know I’m focused on the concept of Business (or Organizational) Value. If you start a project, job, program where you’re going to spend time and money, and haven’t mapped it back to Business Value, then you’ve started down the wrong path. You may achieve value, but that will be accidental.

There are two paths to Business Value:

• You can develop a (new or improved) product or service that allows your external* customer to do something of value to them that they were unable to do before
• You can reduce the internal cost of delivering a product or service to a customer with no loss of value to them

* We’ll come back to who your external customers are and why...