Tag: management

  • 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 1

    Frederick P. Frederickson

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    In answering the question “how do we best cultivate healthy, productive employees?” – it turns out science answered this question for us nearly 80 years ago. Dust off your psychology textbook and open your eyes. On the topic of employee motivation, Abraham Maslow has something important to say, and I suggest you listen closely. 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

  • Cultural Sensitivity

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you are aware “Cultural Sensitivity” is a hot topic in the business world. Perhaps you’ve even had to attend classes, or in the COVID world of 2020, 2021 and beyond, more likely watched a video performed by the Corporate Compliance Playhouse Players. While those training classes serve… 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

  • Ship-Ing?

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    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

  • Managing Employee Retention with Quarterbacks, Interceptions, and Therapists.

    Frederick P. Frederickson

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    In assessing football quarterbacks, one metric stands out more than any other as a predictor of greatness (or adequacy…or even failure) and that is the touchdown-to-interception ratio. In simple terms, over many drives-down-the-field, it is the most accurate measure of efficiency and predictor of success for a team. No measure is more accurate. How good… Read more

  • Back, to the Office

    Back, to the Office

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    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

  • Say ‘Nope’ to Hope.

    Frederick P. Frederickson

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    In Corporate America, all hope is not lost, but it should be. We need to kill it while there is still time. — I just got out of a terrible leadership conference in Portland which broke one of my basic rules. Conferences must be engaging and inspiring OR they must have good coffee. Either/or is… Read more

  • Time for a Pep Talk

    Frederick P. Frederickson

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    Hey Humpty, if you want to make an omelet you have to crack some eggs. I know many of you are down. Maybe even out. And, times are tough. I am not here to deny that the path here has been hard – instead I’m going to lay a yellow brick road right at your… Read more