Digital transformation requires rethinking key processes. Working in different managerial positions in different companies and departments, I have met with an exuberant variety of processes - from burdened with experience bureaucratic to elegant technological. Digital transformation requires rethinking processes. At the same time, my own managerial style is based on only 3 key ones. Which in ...
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The Beginning of a Managerial Career Like many aspiring managers, I was rooting for the team, and my initial management style had a touch of idealism. I wanted to be useful to people, create comfortable working conditions, build trusting relationships with them, and give them opportunities for development. The situation was aggravated by the fact that being closely associated with HR, all employees were considered a team ...
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That doesn't work, that's all. Despite all efforts, reasonable action and timing. As if you are running into some kind of ceiling ... Igor, the owner of a large national company, tried to set up sales to the West. He trained his best salespeople, but after months of intense calls and mailings, their best result was a request for a small ...
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You do not need to learn the skill of devaluing your results, we are generously endowed with it from birth - perhaps this is how nature laid the desire for development. Devaluation and motivation When we are motivated, even a small result on the way to the goal looks like the conquest of Everest and brings satisfaction and charge. But what happens to motivation ...
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"It's like removing snow in a snowfall" - this is how all business owners feel from time to time trying to build a management system. And there is no time to do business. Processes, people, conflicts, mistakes. The persistent feeling of a mouse fiddling around - everyone is fussing, running, making appointments, but somehow to no avail. And here's another ...
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True Gentleman Engineer "Nothing can stop me" - wrapping myself in a short jacket in line at the gangway, I repeated to myself over and over again. Neither the piercing wind, nor the fear of flying, nor the violent cough from the severe flu the day before. I was on the crest of the wave - invulnerable, persistent, self-confident. A contract with a large company for ...
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One step away from his dream, Andrei closed the lid of the MacBook and looked tiredly at his interlocutor: "Something else?" For the third week he had been late at work until the night, plans to spend this summer with his family in Italy now seemed like a naive dream. No, he had no illusions when he started his business - seeking investments, problems ...
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The Power of Irrationality Irrational people are people who begin preparing for an exam or project about the night before the event. Often they even manage to get ready, at certain times they manage to pull out exactly the only ticket that they have learned, but in most cases “if only half an hour…” But it's interesting about them ...
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"How to retain the best employees?", "How to retain the best employees?", "Why are they leaving?", "Staff turnover: how to stop?" - a sound from a push notification instead of an alarm clock - a daily digest of the online management community is "served" for morning coffee. More than 10 years in management and all the same questions every morning ... I asked them at the beginning of my career, ...
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Engineering thinking, quality and everyday life of a student programmer If during his studies at the Institute someone told that there is a quality assurance position - a quality controller and there is a chance to find a job for a first-year computer science student, life could have been completely different. But it was a different reality and our knowledge of the world was ...
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Engineer and engineering thinking ... He is, above all, lazy. But not apathetic. He just doesn't like walking the same path twice. He doesn't do too much. He optimizes known paths and thoroughly studies unknowns before taking action. Sometimes his inaction is called procrastination. Sometimes - irrationality. But he will still achieve the result faster, ...
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Our relationship was rather dramatic. Memories emerge in fragmentary episodes - as if I’m leafing through an album of photographs. Here is our first meeting - traffic jams in the rain, difficult parking, wet paving stones, a long search for a place to spend the night, it rained continuously and knocked on the roof of a small hotel on the outskirts all night. You were too ...
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