Author Profile
Louis Maze
Biography
With decades of experience in management and employee training in corporations, government, and higher education around the globe, Louis brings a unique perspective to management and leadership development.
ARTICLES BY Louis Maze
From "Inception" to "Implementation": Training How to Tell Truth to Power
The New Yorker's parody of "Inception" plays on a negative stereotype of management consultants. Reversing that depends on learning the skill of telling truth to power.
Rites of Passage: Training Managers to Grow Up
Can you still be "friends" with your former peers once you've moved up the hierarchical ladder? The answer is no - or at least you'll have to change your behavior to reflect the new reality. Disabusing new managers of any notion to the contrary should be part of your management training program!
Include Olm's Law in Your Management Training!
Cutting your losses is the hardest thing for most managers, for most people, to do. That's the lesson we young MBAs learned from Professor Kenneth Olm. Training how to recognize the warning signs and deal with the attendant emotions should be included in every management training program.
Peter Pronovost's Checklists for Management Training
The highly successful work of Dr. Peter Pronovost in reducing in-hospital infection through the use of checklists has a direct application to managerial practice. Incorporate checklists in your management training materials!
Train your managers to be Maui Millionaires!
David Finkel's "Maui Millionaires" program relies on a key concept you'll want to incorporate into your management training programs - and into your self-development as a manager! It's deceptively simple,like all great ideas.The key is in the implementation.
No Fear! A lesson from health care patient service for managment training
Your managers-in-training need to learn that compulsively avoiding organizational pain can be highly counter-productive. Design your management training program to incorporate and develop this realization.
