Category: Developing Others
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The Point of Decision

There are many times as a lead production superintendent that I sat in a meeting and received the status of an aircraft. Our Pro Super was briefing an entire laundry list of issues with and I had that feeling much of this was self-induced by him. The whole time I was thinking, “how on earth…
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Micromanagement: Where is the line drawn?

An often overused and misunderstood term used to describe a bad boss, micromanagement is more about the creation of impediments than it is the bosses’ personality or temperament. In order to recognize what is a personal bias toward someone from a genuine, micro-managerial impediment that subtracts value from an organization, we need to understand it.…
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Don’t Know or Don’t Care

A mentor of mine once told me, “personnel issues always boil down to either they don’t know or they don’t care and I can fix both.” Over the years I have learned this is true and most often the issues fall along the don’t know side of the house. In fact, I have met very…
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Operating Expenses
I am a very big fan of transparency, especially when it comes to money. We have affiliate links on this site and occasionally there will be something to generate cash for Deliberate Development. This site was not created to become an income generator and everything that comes in goes to the expenses involved in maintaining…
