Articles from The Lauridsen Group

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CEO/Board Member Briefings

• Implementing Your Strategy
  
  
• Executive Team Effectiveness
  
  
• Present Problems: Normal or Abnormal
  

Director/Manager Briefings

• The Problems of Middle Managers
  
  
• Three Managerial Models. Which One Are You?

Articles

• What You Don't Know Can Kill Your Career
  
  
• What You Don't Know Can Kill Your Career, Part 2
  
  
• Enemies to Learning... Why Some Managers Just Won't Learn
  
  
• The Defender: Another Enemy to Learning
  
  
• Committed Communication: The Art of Getting Things Done Through Others
  
  
• Committed Communication, Part 2

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Jim Collins in Good to Great claims that, "When you put …two complementary forces together--a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship --you get a magical alchemy of superior performance and sustained results."

Boss Talk shows managers of all levels how to build a culture of accountability while maintaining their creative culture. The structure and mechanisms you will learn, developed in both large and small companies, allow you to increase your managerial and leadership competence as you work.

"Need to truly delegate tasks? Need to keep your team coordinated? Wish you were better at holding team members accountable? This book isn't about fancy strategy or fanciful theory. This book provides powerful applicable tools to effect what the authors call Committed Communication&emdash;a better way to get work done through your team by managing their commitments to you. The descriptions and examples are straightforward, easy to get started with, and the tools work. Highly recommended!"

Tom Hayse, CEO, ETM

"You have integrated the key concepts of communication, commitment, coordination of action and collaboration into a system for building a highly productive, accountable culture. You have synthesized these important concepts into a practical management framework we have learned and applied with great success."

Jim Peterson, V.P.
Frame Maker Engineering,
Adobe Systems, Inc.

The authors claim, based on their research and experience, that how managers talk is how they manage and lead! Rigorous conversation is the most powerful--yet untapped--management tool at a manager's disposal. When managers change the way they talk, they immediately become more effective. With this book, you'll learn to boost productivity, build collaboration, inspire outstanding performance, and achieve unprecedented success.

"No modern company can be successful unless it knows how to execute well and how to constantly improve its products and processes. This requires effective teamwork and collaboration built upon clear communication and mutual trust throughout the organization. That's a tall order, but this valuable book shows how any manager can improve his or her skills in building collaborative relationships that deliver exceptional performance. You owe it to yourself to read it and apply its lessons. You'll not only become more effective as a manager, but you'll have less stress on the job and will make yourself ready for the next step up in your career."

Burt Nanus, Professor Emeritus of Management,
University of Southern California, and author of "Visionary Leadership" and "Leaders Who Make a Difference"

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