The Cranky Middle Manager Show #197 Passion-Driven Teams Dan Bobinski

his column on Management Issues if you haven’t yet.

Show Notes

0:00 Welcome to the show. Today we dedicate the show to Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory, 7th president of the Unites States. Small motivated teams can accomplish great things against odds. It helps if the enemy is arrogant, dressed in red and standing in a straight line.

3:04 the quote of the week is from one of my heroes, Michel de Montaigne. The more certain someone is of something, the odds are he’s a blithering idiot. I paraphrase of course……

4:00 Welcome Dan Bobinski back to the show. How do you create “passion driven teams”. This is a team that is motivated by the work at hand, everyone wants to accomplish the same task. Are they working out of momentum or because the manager pushes. One of these works better. Oh, and Dan has dogs :-)

10:00 Why do good people become micro-managers? When you’re a subject expert but unsure how to manage people, you try to control everything.

15:00 What is motivation and how the heck do you get it without manipulation? Is it really motivation, or is it just removing the things that get in the way of successfully doing the task? Dan takes us through an example with sales people.

20:00 I get to give you my definition of the difference between “innovation” and “change”. Getting people’s buy-in to a change is one of the hardest things you can do.  To move people to change you need three things:

focus expectation of the “aha” attention density

Oh, and dishes of candy do wonders. Really.

26:00 Over the years are the complaints about management changing? Dan has noticed, and Management Issues agrees, that people are concentrating more on human than organizational issues. Is this a permanent change?

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