Snippets

 

From time to time, I add snippets (short descriptions of lessons learned over my many years of managing organizations, business units, and companies). Check back every few weeks for new topics (click on a title below to see the snippet).

Let me know if you have a topic you would like to see discussed, or you have suggestions to improve the ones already here.


-Don Burtis
don@burtisgroup.com

Avoid Barney Meetings

 

It Takes A Generation

Hog the Clock (part 1)

 

Press Release First Paragraph

Hog the Clock (part 2)

   

Every Meeting is a Negotiation

   

Handling the Press

   

Non-Disclosure Agreements

   

Spiral and Waterfall Methodology

   

Under Budget Can Be Bad

   

Stamp Out Tribal Knowledge

   

Warriors and Statesmen

   

Hiring is a Project

   

No Time for OJT

   

Helping Your Troops

   

Who's Your Backup?

   

Underperformers…

   

Good Worker or Just a Drinking Buddy?