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More interactive meetings
Author: Kevan Hall
Read the full pdf article - How can companies make their meetings more interactive and valuable 1.8MB download
Last updated: 08/07/08 01:53pm
Life in a Matrix - Alignment & New Blog
Author: Kevan Hall
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:25pm
The Teamwork Myth
Author: Kevan Hall
Read the full pdf article - why teamwork should not be the "sacred cow" that it is in many organizations - along with some faster alternatives
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:15pm
Breaking the chains of micromanagement
Author: Kevan Hall
Business Executive Magazine article on how to break out of the damaging cycle of micromanagement and low people expectations
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:13pm
Distance no object
Author: Kevan Hall
More companies are going remote in managing their teams. Margaret Kubicek looks at the people development challenges they face along the way.
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:11pm
AMA Podcast Interview
Author: Kevan Hall
Kevan Hall on Creating Corporate Speed in the American Management Association innovative thinkers podcast
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:08pm
Obstacles to high performance
Author: Kevan Hall
How old fashioned thinking about cooperation, communication, control and community can be barriers to high performance
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:04pm
Too much teamwork
Author: Kevan Hall
Too much teamwork makes companies slow and expensive to run
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:02pm
Time to cut back on cooperation, communication & control
Author: Kevan Hall
Time to cut back on cooperation, communication, control and community so we can all get some work done
Last updated: 05/02/08 12:00pm
Leave my values alone I only work here
Author: Kevan Hall
Kevan Hall argues that true values are deeply held and resistant to change, that companies waste time trying to change values and that they should focus on some simpler shared practices instead
Last updated: 05/02/08 11:58am
Less waste, more speed
Author: Kevan Hall
By wasting less time on unnecessary cooperation, communication and central control organizations can deliver faster, reduce costs and improve job satisfaction
Last updated: 05/02/08 11:56am
Getting things done without traditional authority
Author: Kevan Hall
In complex companies we have to get things done without traditional line management or other forms of authority.
Influence without authority is very simple in theory but very challenging in practice, there are three key steps.
Last updated: 12/07/07 09:08am
Make your Matrix really work
Author: Kevan Hall
Making your matrix work is nothing to do with the lines on the organization chart - and everything to do with how your people operate within the structure.
See our top 3 tips here
Last updated: 16/05/07 04:13pm
Lack of communication, don’t make me laugh
Author: Kevan Hall
See how lack of communication is a problem of the past, and what to do to slow the avalanche of unnecessary messages
Last updated: 08/03/07 05:02pm
How to make your year end meeting a hit
Author: Kevan Hall
For many of us the year end meeting is one of the few opportunities to get face to face with our colleagues.
If you are involved in one of these meetings here are 3 things to avoid and 3 things to aim for to make your meeting a success
Last updated: 03/01/07 01:22pm
Why technology strangles teamwork
Author: Kevan Hall
Even great teams slow down when team members are in different locations and work together mainly through conference calls and other communication technology.
Find out why and what to do about it
Last updated: 02/01/07 04:18pm
Success can make you slow
Author: Kevan Hall
“Success can make you slow,” says Kevan Hall, author of Speed Lead – Faster, simpler ways to manage people, projects and teams in complex companies”.
”Great companies grow; they develop more sophisticated products, attract diverse people and build complicated organization structures – but this complexity eventually makes them slower, more expensive to run and less satisfying to work for.”
It does not have to be like this
Last updated: 02/01/07 04:13pm
An epidemic of cooperation
Author: Kevan Hall
The average FSTE 100 Company employs 2,300 people full time to do nothing else but sit in unnecessary meetings. These meetings are just part of an epidemic of cooperation that is making large companies slow and expensive to run.
Last updated: 19/10/06 01:44pm
Is there such a thing as Global leadership?
Author: Kevan Hall
How can you be an effective global leader when your followers around the world have very different expectations in the leadership style they prefer?
Time to pay less attention to the leaders and more to the style of “Followship” we need.
Last updated: 28/06/06 04:14pm
Out of date expectations?
Author: Kevan Hall
We have high expectations of our managers. Read any management book or attend a training program, you will see lists of criteria and skills that make managers look like superheroes. But are these expectations both out of date and actually damaging people development?
Last updated: 05/06/06 06:36pm
A "lack of communication"?
Author: Kevan Hall
Nearly every business and team problem is put down to a “lack of communication”.
In complex companies the problem is likely to be too much communication, not too little.
Read our tips on what to do about it.
Last updated: 24/02/06 02:28pm
IT Leading the Global Charge
Author: Kevan Hall
IT professionals are often first in line when companies start to integrate their international business operations or move work overseas, and this is not always a comfortable place to be!
Last updated: 02/02/06 09:26am
25% Faster Teams & Projects
Author: Kevan Hall
A well run "kick-off" can speed up the delivery of your international team or project by 25% or more. Learn why and how in our latest article.
Last updated: 09/01/06 11:52am
Making real decisions in International meetings
Author: Kevan Hall
Do you ever take part in international meetings where people say “yes” when they mean “no”? Where you thought you made a decision but nothing happened after the meeting? Cultural differences may be part of the problem.
Last updated: 18/11/05 02:22pm
When being too helpful is a management failure
Author: Kevan Hall
Do your team members call you every day for advice, answers to problems or support? It is nice to be popular but this may be a sign that you have not given your people the information, confidence, skills or authority to deal with problems for themselves.
Last updated: 09/11/05 08:58am
Planned spontaneous communication
Author: Kevan Hall
How can we recreate those "water-cooler moments" of spontaneous communication when we work in remote teams. If we do not, then there is a risk that I only call when I need something or have a problem - the answer is planned spontaneous communication
Last updated: 11/08/05 04:48pm
Acessibility
Author: Kevan Hall
When we ask people what they want from their global managers, "accessibility" is always high on the list.
But what does accessibility really mean?
Last updated: 20/07/05 07:02pm
Are You Being Served?
Author: Kevan Hall
The type of service you experience in the air is determined by your cultural background
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:38pm
Fly By Phone
Author: Kevan Hall
When someone is 3,000 miles away, how do you tell him his work is not up to scratch?
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:38pm
Global Division
Author: Kevan Hall
As organisations become more and more global, both employees and managers are drawn into international projects.
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:38pm
International Matrix Management
Author: Kevan Hall
Many international organisations have introduced some form of
organisation structure involving two or more lines of reporting – a matrix.
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:38pm
Understanding The Big Picture
Author: Kevan Hall
If you heard that a colleague had been spotted wandering around Paris, mobile phone in hand, reading the inscriptions on the Arc de Triomphe, and loitering around in the Louvre, you might be hard put to believe that it was all in the interests of meeting the global challenge
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:38pm
Distance No Object
Author: Kevan Hall
More companies are going remote in managing their teams. Margaret Kubicek looks at the people development challenges they face along the way.
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:37pm
Global Warming
Author: Kevan Hall
International supply chains are increasingly common but merely imposing your practices on other business cultures can be very destructive.
Last updated: 11/05/05 03:37pm
Building a truly Global HR Organisation
Author: Kevan Hall
Globalisation is a major challenge - no more so than for HR people, who often find themselves torn between local loyalties and central processes. New research from Global integration shows the particular challenges of building a truly integrated international HR function
Last updated: 12/04/05 05:05pm