Project Oriel » management http://www.edstrom.net/blog Embracing Change Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:39:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Decisiveness http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/decisiveness/ http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/decisiveness/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:35:05 +0000 Peter Edstrom http://www.edstrom.net/blog/?p=987 Herding Cats Quote of the Day:

If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.

—Lido Anthony (Lee) Iacocca

]]> http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/decisiveness/feed/ 0 Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/fight-as-if-you-are-right-listen-as-if-you-are-wrong/ http://www.edstrom.net/blog/archive/fight-as-if-you-are-right-listen-as-if-you-are-wrong/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:16:30 +0000 Peter Edstrom http://www.edstrom.net/blog/?p=861 Bob Sutton believes you should “Learn how to fight as if you are right and listen as if you are wrong: It helps you develop strong opinions that are weakly held.”

This seems to me to be good advise, and one that I’m going to work on. Apparently he has a whole book written about this type of thing.

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