Author: Fred E. Frederickson
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Ship-Ing?
Webster defines leadership as: (noun) a position as a leader of a group, when a person holds the position of leader, or the power or ability to lead other people. Read that definition again and notice that “leadership” is defined as a noun. Nouns are, if School House Rock is to be believed (and it Read more
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Self Help
Regarding self-help books I admit: I am NOT a big fan. While teaching several ICBM classes, I often have to deliver this disappointing news from the front of a classroom full of young self-help-book enthusiasts. Before the responses and book-club applications come flooding in, allow me a chance to offer a more-complete answer: While I Read more
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Back, to the Office
It’s 2022, all your staff is vaccinated for, immunized against or apathetic about COVID and it’s many many variants. Do you know what that means? It means it time to round up all those work from home slackers and herd them back to the office. Unfortunately because it is no longer legal to round up Read more
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Great Resignation
Current headlines read like a menu for the coming managerial appocolypse: “The Great Resignation: Why Millions are Quitting Their Jobs“, “The Great Resignation Continues“, or even “Great Resignation, Literally Worse Than Hitler.” But as we’ve all come to know, and hopefully expect, headlines are meant to attract attention. And in each of these stories, not Read more
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Quiet-Quitters? It’s Time to Make Some Noise!
Unless you’re a manager that’s been living under a rock for the last year you must have read the headlines about Quiet-Quitting. In a nutshell, Quiet-Quitting is a passive-aggressive attempt by employees to reduce their workload in response to a perceived slight by management. If you pay attention to business media you would think QQ Read more
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Meeting-nomics 305: The Phrase That Pays
Increasing TMT and expanding your influence are intimately tied, and like a Gordian knot, or the meaning of a mission statement, can’t be untied. So rather than fight it, embrace it. As you progress in your journey toward ever greater managerial excellence you might be faced with a situation where you start to lose control Read more
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Meeting-nomics 303: Unleveling the playing field
How to put yourself back in the game. In a TMT rut? Losing the TMT battle with your peers? Here are 5 simple ways to put yourself back on top! Simply take one of your larger conference rooms out of commission and prepare to ascend the corporate ladder. How to do this? There are several Read more
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Meeting-nomics 302: Maximizing synergies
To maximize the output of the Meet-conomy, a good manager must leverage every strategy at his or her disposal. That includes all the lessons in Meeting-nomics 101 (achieving the meeting clearing point), 201 (double booking and incomprehensibility) and what is presented here in 302: Maximizing Synergies where ever more subtle strategies must be employed to Read more
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Meeting-nomics 201: Micro Meeting-nomics
At all times remember the basis of meeting-nomic theory is that meetings are the product, not the means, of corporate output and that in any healthy meeting-nomic system TMT (total meeting time) must increase. It has been shown that a yearly TMT rate of increase of 10% shows that managers are “doing their job” but Read more
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Meeting-nomics 101
Total meeting time must constantly increase. To maintain managerial status quo total meeting time (TMT) must remain constant or increase. The more meetings that are held, the more meetings become the actual product. As soon as management loses sight of the point of meetings and begins to focus on the meetings themselves the battle is Read more