A good friend of mine’s Father taught at the University of Regina, Al Derges was one of the best professors, ever. You can even see for yourself here, an almost perfect rating on RateMyProffesors.com. My time spent at University had very few memorable classes to say the least, but Al had more than one exceptional class and this one had some significance for me recently.
Pygmalian in Management was a Harvard Business Review article we were to read and write a response to. It’s a great story and I encourage you to read it but the moral is “a manager’s expectations are the key to a subordinate’s performance and development.”
What we expect out of people is usually what we get.
I coach volleyball, high school senior boys. When I go into a season I expect the best from them, nothing less. This year we began the season with only one returning player, so we were a very young team, if not the youngest in the league. Rebuilding year everyone thought, I’m sure even some of the players had thought that as well, but not the coaches. The head coach and I decided that we were going to set goals as Continue Reading
Last Saturday morning I was woken at 9:45 by my doorbell. No one comes to our house that early, it could be an emergency I thought to myself, so I staggered out of my room. My room mate, in the same state (squinting eyes, wearing the pants from last night) was a step a head of me and opened the door. To our dismay we found no one, just a little, old man leaving the yard going to the neighbors house. We thought nothing of it except for how mad we were at this little, old man that got us with the ol’ ring and run trick. Back to sleep.
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If your job wasn’t to market your company anymore but to market a Super Hero instead, what would you change? What would you do differently? Try for a minute as a thought exercise to put yourself in the shoes of a Super Hero marketer.
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