From an old Latin line, festina lente, or hurry slowly, is the notion that if you do things too fast you’re likely to waste time going back to correct mistakes. To hurry slowly is to work carefully and methodically and it’ll be the fastest way to achieve the desired...
Steve was on the verge of being put into performance management because the management of his team was not going well. Steve couldn’t understand why his team became unengaged when he was promoted into the management position. Results were average, the team was...
In school I was very average academically, sport and socialising had way more appeal! Even when I put effort in my grades were never anything to get excited about. I even failed English in one semester – that hurt! And that contributed greatly to me having to...
At the start of a short-term internship project in 1999, the manager handed over a thick report and said, “Read this, then let’s talk about how you will fix it.” That moment, I later realised, was a tipping point for me as an employee, project manager, and future...
Ruth’s frustration was on the rise, to put it politely, she couldn’t work out why sometimes delegating tasks to others worked and sometimes it pretty much blew up in her face. Even when she thought she had a reliable employee, something would go off track;...
“It’s just easier if I do it myself.” “Every time I delegate, the work never meets my standard or my expectation.” “If they make a mistake then I’ll just have to re-do it as well as cop the heat for the mistake and the...
