Archives for management
Help yourself by managing up
If you have ever felt at odds with your manager or like you just are not reading from the same page, you might consider developing the skill of “managing up.”
CMO Leadership: Putting your agencies to work for you!
As an interactive agency, Pop Art works with many other agencies. Sometimes we are agency-of-record for a client, but most often, our clients employ 2, 3 or sometimes dozens of marketing agencies and consultants, and we are just some of the actors on the stage. Having multiple agencies can be very expensive because of the necessary [...]
What can we learn from Marine Officers? Here’s one thing.
Know yourself, know your people, know your job. Although I wasn’t in the Marines (Army), I’m familiar with this maxim they teach their officers. But it isn’t just applicable to Marine Core officers. It can make any individual more effective within any people-driven organization. 1. Know Yourself Self-awareness is as valuable as it is rare (in abundance, at least). [...]
Accidental Leadership: How I Discovered I Wanted to be a Project Manager
When I think of Project Management and the people in PM roles, I think of strong, confident people that have great initiative to motivate the people around them. Now, when I think of myself, I think of a hard worker, but someone who’s probably a little too shy for her own good. How in the [...]
The Captain Kirk Management Style
In an episode of “Star Trek” (maybe you remember it), the senior offices of the Enterprise were contaminated by low-level radiation from a comet, which caused them to age rapidly and prematurely. Fourty-five minutes into the program, Kirk, Spock, Bones and Scotty had aged to the point that they could no longer carry out their [...]
