Tag: meetings

  • Stacking 2.0

    Fred E. Frederickson

    There you are, your managerial 6-pack glistening under the glorious florescent lights overhead. Your leadership biceps pumped from lifting the morale of everyone around you. You wonder, how can you further apply everything you’ve learned about Managerial Stacking. Welcome to Stacking 2.0! A clever manager can achieve accelerated results by using the secrets of stacking… 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

  • 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

  • Alumni Mailbag – Volume 1

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    At the International College of Businessry and Managering we like to keep in touch with our alumni and like to share our correspondence when we feel it will be helpful, instructive or inspiring to others. Here is an example that we believe is all three. Dear ICBM: I recently terminated my employment by a large… Read more

  • Meeting-nomics 305: The Phrase That Pays

    Fred E. Frederickson

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    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

  • Meeting-nomics 303: Unleveling the playing field

    Fred E. Frederickson

    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

  • Meeting-nomics 302: Maximizing synergies

    Fred E. Frederickson

    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

  • Meeting-nomics 201: Micro Meeting-nomics

    Fred E. Frederickson

    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