McKeever & Sullivan

McKeever and Sullivan helps organizations accelerate their growth by creating a Management Advantage.

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We agree. That's why we're taking a different approach. Stay tuned here...

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Don’t like to criticize others’ work. But this piece I tripped over crosses silliness line. How often do you take “leadership training”? Answer clear. Every day. “Courses” largely irrelevant. Point is: Read EVERY day. Learn SOMETHING new EVERY day. Period. https://t.co/kHZYbab81z

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“There are lots of rewards for heroic saves at work. But heroic saves undermine the desire to build better systems.” – Seth Godin

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Is nothing sacred? Even we at McKeever and Sullivan (the intersection where Ebbets Field stood) are horrified.

You guys took money from Hank Greenberg?? What is wrong with you???

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Our home and away uniforms with the Starr Insurance patch.

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@joeDmarti Touching base. [DON'T TOUCH!!]

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“Humans aren’t a resource. They are the point.” – Seth Godin

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“...information ...consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”-Nobel Laureate Herb Simon, 1971(!)

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Did Mencken foresee AI chatbots?

“For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
– H.L. Mencken

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@avc A whine: we try many restaurants but over the years have been to some dozens of times. Would it kill OpenTable/Resy to add a mark to a reservation indicating a returning guest? Or kill the host to say 'welcome back!'? I don't need to be treated special. Just appreciated.

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@avc Here's what we wrote 10 years ago on the pecking order of stakeholders. We agree with you Fred.

https://t.co/rUXzqG0zZl

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"What we have here is failure to communicate." --Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke

Communications is the Zeroth Law... the one that must come before everything else.

https://t.co/vZdqVKg321

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Management with intent https://t.co/0qEPy8j7gN

What do we want time together to foster? Create the conditions for these... and get out of the way.

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@avc Office time ought to be based on circumstances: kickoffs, ideation, design, problem solving, etc. Heads-down time can be from anywhere. But: this approach doesn't work for those who need predictability in schedule to care for family. Still need to solve that.

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@avc https://t.co/1hf7plX6F9 It's my perception - 1 person's opinion - that the community vibe on AVC went down substantially with comments on TWTR instead of Disqus. Anything to that... or just my confirmation bias showing through?

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@avc All good points, but if you want to increase adoption, focus on making range greater and charging times faster. Demand will take care of itself.

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@avc Remember The Stockdale Paradox:

Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties.

AND at the same time...

Confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

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That's why we need the hard stuff AND the soft stuff. These create a Management Advantage.

This Is Not Your Grandfather’s M.B.A. https://t.co/jV4jMrMueO

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@avc Meetings such as this 2x/yr can be just what remote workers and distributed teams will welcome to sustain connection and renew their energy. When we've done this, the feel-good time keeps us going for (at least) 6 months.

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Kyrie, Nets acknowledge off-court issues took toll https://t.co/SjmBmZuDWB

Most think the dominant science in teams sports is biology. But in fact it's chemistry.

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"The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance." -- Peter Drucker

Leaders matter... a lot.

https://t.co/R4bhaA37Mc

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"...once you made General, you never had a bad meal and you never again heard the truth." -- Jim Mattis

Senior leaders in every (hierarchical) organization should remember that.

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@avc Our take on sustainability
https://t.co/YqDrtWmCI8