At South by Southwest, one of my many serendipitous reactions was with Charlene Li, who I knew well when she was with Forrester. This was perhaps the first time I saw her in person since she foudned the Altimeter Group, and she had a present for me: a galley of her forthcoming book Open […]
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Managing vs. Motivating
I caught this quote today on the Mets.com mailbag: "Managers are in place to manage, not motivate." – Marty Noble, reporter, MLB.com Managers are there to manage, not motivate? In the corporate world, if a manager only managed without motivating, the company’s performance would suffer and the manager wouldn’t last. What’s true for corporate teams […]
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