BEING SERIOUS IS OVERRATED18-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman I have found that many people, particularly as they become more senior in their corporate life (or just get older), start to take life and themselves much too seriously, supposedly in line with their elevated status. They therefore tend to create... read more » |
FIFTH SECRET OF TIME MANAGEMENT11-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman You have to kill interruptions as much as possible. The first step is to take control of emails. It’s interesting that we have established rules and procedures for physical interruptions, for example if someone’s office door is closed, if they ... read more » |
SELL, SELL, SELL01-Nov-2010 - Les Hayman Nothing happens in this world until somebody sells something! Which makes “selling” the noblest profession of them all !! It may not officially be the oldest profession, but I doubt that even that could have existed without some sales effort. I a... read more » |
FOURTH SECRET OF TIME MANAGEMENT28-Oct-2010 - Les Hayman H.H “Breaker “Morant (1864-1902) is credited with having said “Live every day as if it was your last, because one day you will be right.” He was spot-on as on February 27, 1902, at the age of 38, he was executed after conviction for murder during... read more » |
THIRD SECRET OF SUCCESS21-Oct-2010 - Les Hayman Being able to update your resume (curriculum vitae) every year is an important part of success. I am not suggesting that you update it and put it out on the street, just that you need to be able to update the contents every year, and that you sh... read more » |
HR … WHAT’S HR GOT TO DO WITH INNOVATION? ISN’T THAT R&D?04-Oct-2010 - Les Hayman Why is it that when you talk about innovation most people can’t look beyond product innovation? It’s a wonderful thing to have superior products, particularly if you can create products that people just love to have and to use, like Apple. My wi... read more » |
THE PROBLEM WITH COMPROMISE06-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman I have always hated compromise! I believe that the problem with compromise is that no-one really gets what they want and therefore no-one is really committed to the success of the compromise decision, and I find this to be as true in pe... read more » |
THE 3 GREAT BUSINESS LIES02-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman It is incredible that marketing organisations within companies spend such an incredible amount of time developing a company’s mission, vision and values statements and yet they all tend to come up with basically the same things over and over aga... read more » |
GYMNASTICS AND BUSINESS19-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman Some time ago I was surprised to learn that in gymnastics competitions at global levels such as the Olympics, achieving a “perfect score” for a perfectly executed routine in any of the disciplines, needs more than just the perfection of the routi... read more » |
MANAGING YOUR CAREER14-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman I have found that most people do very little to manage their own careers. The majority of people seem to work their way through their jobs with varying degrees of skill and commitment, and wait for opportunities to present themselves, then pick ... read more » |
I LIVE TO WORK OR I WORK TO LIVE05-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman The great thing about being a Manager is that you only have one primary objective. All you have to do is to create an environment where people can be unbelievably successful. I understand that this is easier to say than to do, but it’s not a bad ... read more » |
FLOGGING A DEAD HORSE02-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman I have lived and worked in Europe for the last 9 years after more than 30 years working in the IT Sector in NZ, Australia, Singapore and the USA, and have worked with, for, and also been responsible for, hundreds of different Managers at varying ... read more » |
VIVE LA FRANCE25-Jun-2010 - Les Hayman The French Unions have called for National Strikes in response to the Government’s announcement that it will raise the official pensionable retirement age in France from 60 to 62. This could be the first real test of the Sarkozy Government and i... read more » |
GROWING A NEW LEG20-Jun-2010 - Les Hayman I was in Belgrade, Serbia, recently to speak at a conference of Business people. On the way in from the Airport to my hotel, I asked the young driver as to whether he felt that things had improved or worsened since my last trip to Belgrade a year... read more » |
TEACHING OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS20-Jun-2010 - Les Hayman I have been regularly surprised about how many Managers I come across who believe that a valid Management approach is to look for people to do something wrong and then to help them correct it. I surmise that this satisfies two basic urges that th... read more » |
SECOND SECRET OF TIME MANAGEMENT30-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman Diaries are meant to be an aid to help us all manage our time allocations but in most cases are rarely used in a way that actually helps people to really achieve this. The problem is that most people use diaries mainly as a means of giving other... read more » |
FIRST SECRET OF TIME MANAGEMENT23-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman Can anyone really manage time? We all get allocated exactly the same amount, just 24 hours per day, and yet some people never seem to have enough time and always have a growing mountain of undone tasks, and others seem to be able to do an incredi... read more » |
QUALITY OF MANAGEMENT FOR THE FUTURE02-Sep-2010 - Les Hayman I believe that “People join companies, but leave managers”. People will join a company in the belief that the image and reputation that it projects is what they are looking for in an employer, and as such somewhere that they can learn, develop and... read more » |
HR … POLITE TO POLICE TO PARTNER TO PLAYER26-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman Whenever I speak to a group of HR Professionals, I tend to start with the need for HR organisations to go through a process of change, and I call this transition “Polite to Police to Partner to Player”. HR people have always tended to be the polit... read more » |
MOVE THEM UP OR MOVE THEM OUT23-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman I have long believed that managers need to always have a “ladder” of their people graded from best to worst performer. This is not just to ensure visibility of the top performers, but also to ensure identification of those that need help. The pro... read more » |
IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME16-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman When I was appointed to the SAP Global Extended Board in 1999, my bosses at the time (the Global CEO and the Board Chairman) approved my title as “CEO Asia Pacific, Board Member SAP-AG”. This was based on the fact that no-one outside of Germany r... read more » |
THE THREE ENVELOPES09-Aug-2010 - Les Hayman Just after I was appointed to the role of IT Manager at International Harvester NZ about 40 years ago, a colleague told me a story that highlighted the tenuous nature of management roles. It involved the removal of a CEO by his board after the co... read more » |
CONGRATULATIONS … YOU’RE A HIGH POTENTIAL … HERE IS YOUR TATTOO26-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman Ever since Jack Welch told the world something along the lines of “ … look after the top 10% because they create the magic ..”, every company has put some effort into implementing a “High Potential” or “Top Talent” programme (Pesto effect ?), tha... read more » |
HR … THE PESTO EFFECT22-Jul-2010 - Les Hayman A number of people have asked me to write of my experiences running a company internal HR department after 40 years in business roles. When I was first asked whether I would do this, rather than retiring, I felt that it was a bit like asking Attil... read more » |
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