Managing the Gray – Positive Advice That Everyone Can Use to Succeed

C.C.:

A good point in this podcast about not wanting your team members to come to you for permission at every turn. It is very empowering for a worker to know that she is encouraged to take some risks on her own. You are very right that this is how innovation happens, and happens quickly. Just look at the lightning pace of development in the new-media space as a great example. Clearly, developers, communicators, and evangelists have the confidence to move, speak, mash up, etc. their own … and it’s wonderful to be a part of it all!

–Bryan Person
The New Comm Road Podcast
http://www.NewCommRoad.com

[...] Managing the Gray #10 Transcript “C.C.’s Management Style & Tips” (original post & podcast) C.C. Chapman: Welcome to the Managing the Gray #10. I am C.C. Chapman. How is it going? New media specialist talking about no-control PR, consumer-generated content, Second Life, marketing management, anything under the sun, you never know what we are going to talk about here in Managing the Gray, but what I am talking about today is some taking a complete shift the other direction. iTunes just changed the way they organize podcasts. Some of the organizations I think is better, some of it I think is worse. One of them is they took marketing which this podcast obviously was in and made it into a category now called Management & Marketing, which is fine, but I think those are two very distinct areas Management & Marketing and I do not get the combination. I just do not get it. Did they just think it was the Ms so they would stick the Ms together, I do not know, but I thought hey it is something new, so I figured why not I talk about management for a show. Do something a little different here. You know give you some insight into my world of management and so what I did was I sat down and I wrote down whatever came down to my mind. If I was to write rules of my management technique, what will I put down? So I just started writing down some different things. This is just some kind of a short show, Managing the Gray #10, which is cool we have made it to 10. Just giving you some advice that if you are a manager or something, it is my one philosophy, this is not anything right or wrong. [...]