Comments for Manage By Walking Around

Comment on Logic Model by Nenshad Bardoliwalla

Nenshad Bardoliwalla — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:36:50 +0000

This is a canonical activity-based costing model!

Comment on Poking fun at Marketing, redux by Vinay

Vinay — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:24:57 +0000

Let’s not assume engineers always know what problems are worth solving

Comment on Poking fun at Marketing, redux by Oski

Oski — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:08:42 +0000

True

Comment on Poking fun at Marketing by Poking fun at Marketing, redux « Manage By Walking Around

Poking fun at Marketing, redux « Manage By Walking Around — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:59:39 +0000

[...] } After I poked fun at Marketing earlier this year, several people forwarded me this classic joke about the communication issues [...]

Comment on What’s in a name? by Performance Management Defined (and Debated) « Manage By Walking Around

Performance Management Defined (and Debated) « Manage By Walking Around — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:57:42 +0000

[...] term performance management seems to have become even more popular than when I ran my informal experiment three years ago. A Yahoo! search for performance management now returns more than 45 million [...]

Comment on Strategy shouldn’t be static by Robin

Robin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:51:37 +0000

Just came across your blog.

I would like to add to the overall view and Michael’s comment on the risk of strategy paralysis that current thinking needs to change.

It is the implementation of the strategy that delivers revenue not the strategy. Yes the strategy is critical but it must be executed and the time to start is once you have the core principals in place BECAUSE – STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION NEVER GOES ACCORDING TO PLAN.

A key question I would add is “how often do you review implementation as a leader?”

Not once a year or once a quarter but every two weeks. You must keep your eye on the implementation and ensure the right actions and behaviors are being taken.

For more information on the leaders role in implementation, check out my my new book Beyond Strategy – The Leader’s Role in Successful Implementation, John Wiley & Sons.

I address how the staggering failure of leaders to deliver on the strategy promises has led implementation to becoming an integral part of strategy discussions, in the last few years.

Implementation of strategy can‘t simply be delegated.

Robin
International specialist in strategy implementation

Comment on Top 10 Books by Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:03:29 +0000

I wrote this list more than two years ago. In the interim, there have been many books written about performance management, some of them good. If I had to add just one more book to this list, it would be “Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution” by Bardoliwalla, Buscemi, et al. While it’s a bit long at 900 pages, it’s about as comprehensive as they come.

Comment on The HP Way by MBWA Origins and Spinoffs « Manage By Walking Around

MBWA Origins and Spinoffs « Manage By Walking Around — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:52:16 +0000

[...] to spend most of their days visiting employees, customers, and suppliers. As I wrote in the inaugural post of this blog: They believed that only through these two-way dialogues would line workers understand how they [...]

Comment on Scrum By Walking Around by MBWA Origins and Spinoffs « Manage By Walking Around

MBWA Origins and Spinoffs « Manage By Walking Around — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:56:50 +0000

[...] } After last week’s post, Scrum By Walking Around, a reader emailed me to ask if I knew the the origins of the phrase management by walking around [...]

Comment on Scrum By Walking Around by PM Hut

PM Hut — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:22:34 +0000

Jonathan, I have published a very comprehensive article on MBWA. The article highlights the importance of MBWA and how it creates this bond between the manager and the employees.