Tag: great management

  • So this is “goodbye”

    Frederick P. Frederickson

    One of the exercises each student at the International College of Businessery and Managering is required to complete before graduation is to write a “goodbye” letter. Something heart felt and inspirational. A message a great leader should feel compelled to share with their team upon accepting the inevitable promotion a degree from ICBM brings. We… Read more

  • The Truth & Lindbergh’s Baby

    Frederick P. Frederickson

    The truth is too important to be tethered to just the facts as we know them. Truth is very much like faith, you must see the Divine before it appears. As the story goes: Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was the child of famous aviator Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh. “Little Lindy”, as he was called, was… Read more

  • Meeting-nomics: Supply and Demand

    Fred E. Frederickson

    Established economic theory states that as the supply of something increases the price (value) of that thing will fall. Similarly if the demand for a thing increases without a corresponding increase in supply the price will rise. Inflation is often explained as too much money chasing too few goods. Having defined these basic terms it… Read more

  • Man-ager in the Middle

    Fred E. Frederickson

    Middle managers get a bad rap; some say they add overhead, create uneeded bureaucracy, slow down organizations and add expense. Some so called “lean and mean” corporations are even eliminating middle mangers. Scary thought isn’t it. What would a world without middle management look like? No weekly status meetings, no yearly reviews, no empire building.… Read more

  • When Failure is THE Option

    Fred E. Frederickson

    NASA is famous, or infamous, for the saying “failure is not an option.” Few things could be further from the truth, failure is always an option. Frequently it is the easiest option, but did you know that sometimes failure is also the best option? NASA understands this better than most. This is not to pick… Read more

  • Message to the C-Suite

    Fred E. Frederickson

    Everything you’re doing is great! Every personnel decision you’ve made since you reached the top has been perfect. As long as you have the “C” in front of your title, so will be every decision going forward.* *Note to the reader: At ICBM we occasionally use sarcasm to make a point, but not in this… Read more

  • Term Limits

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    We at the International College of Businessry and Managering, as a policy, practice and peccadillo, express no political views. But as the world’s leading experts in organizational structure optimization we have recently completed an in-depth analysis and determined that every political party across the globe is, as one our Senior Fellows put it, “full of… Read more

  • The Kum-By-Yah Factory – Part 2

    Frederick P. Frederickson

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    Ok – lets recap. Mazlow’s hierarchy can be a useful and didactic tool for helping us reach our personal psychological potential. For personal growth, the pyramid has been a great success. Climb away. Applying the pyramid to business however has yielded a different set of results. In applying it to business: Mazlow tried. Mazlow failed.… Read more

  • Conflict of Interest

    Frederick P. Frederickson

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    Negotiating can be the scariest part of a manager’s job. Because it is a tool used infrequently, it rarely gets enough time at the business end of a grinding wheel. But properly honed, the skill of negotiating can effortlessly be sharpened into a sword, plowshare, or dagger. By some, the art of negotiation has been… Read more

  • P = NP or The Battle of the Sexes

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    Actor Rex Harrison crooned in the 1964 movie My Fair Lady “Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” Today we would like to discuss the various reasons why they aren’t, and more importantly, why as a manager you wouldn’t want them to be. Before delving deeper into the topic of gender differences as… Read more