Ready, Steady… Manage

I have grown more aware of the passage of time over the years. Not just in the sense of growing older, but as a manager my time gets split between multiple foci.
As a team member I typically had one or two tasks or priorities. At the end of the day I generally knew what […]

People tend to meet expectations, their own, and those of the people who they have a relationship with.
I assume most people have encountered, even if 2nd hand, "Pygmalion In The Classroom" - the 1968 study of kids and teachers expectations.
I see no reason why the same dynamic does not work in business.

My son and I played with with his train set a couple of days ago. We had made "an accident track" - a perilous system of curves and hills where trains regularly fall off.
Now if he only had one or two trains then they would have enough space between them, and no accidents would occur. […]