Most managers seem to feel that training employees is a job that should be left to others. I, on the other hand, strongly believe that the manager should do it himself.”. Andy Grove, High Output Management. When I first became a manager, I had mixed feelings about training. Performance Management. Productivity. MORE >>

Bringing up a new web app is much more than a technical project management effort. Determine high level navigation architecture (what are the organizing principles of the information and actions you can take on this web app? Server side architecture design finalized. This is the fourth post in my  Product Planning Series. MORE >>

Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations. This is the technical equivalent of an “executive recruiter.” Marty Zwilling. MORE >>

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. By Ben Bakhshi. Three of them were sold.” MORE >>

Perhaps the CEO’s most important operational responsibility is designing and implementing the communication architecture for her company. The architecture might include the organizational design, meetings, processes, email, yammer and even one-on-one meetings with managers and employees. Best Practices Management People MORE >>