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First Line Manager: What process in your job is not important?

What is the most important question you can ask an employee about his/her job.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on May 22, 2015

First Line Managers: Your Office, Beware

Remember the quality you provide to a corporation is not on the walls of your office. This most times is the past and not the present.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on May 16, 2015

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Do Not Love Your Job

Lately, I read an article in Business Week by a so called expert… in the second sentence the expert made the comment that you should love what you do.Recently, on Good Morning America a reporter was i

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on May 5, 2015

First Line Manager: Dealing with experts… ?

I remember my first encounter with an expert. I was the night manager at the Timme Plaza Restaurant in Wilmington, North Carolina, when the event occurred.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on April 24, 2015

First Line Managers… You are “The Pattern”…

My first real job was as a carpenter helper with Goodwin and Murphy construction company on a bridge building job on interstate 65 just south of Verbena, Alabama.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on April 14, 2015

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First Line Manager in All Thy Getting Get Wisdom

First line managers must use wisdom to make effective decisions. They must reconciled differences between people and processes. When we think of wisdom we usually think of King Solomon.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on April 9, 2015

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First line managers are horse’s asses?

What is the problem with first line managers?

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on April 1, 2015

E Pluribus Unum?

Where did the current United States government come from? It is not our founders vision of government. Where is our government going?

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on March 29, 2015

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The First Line Manager: Trust begins a process that leads to success.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on March 19, 2015

First Line Manager: The Problem Ain’t The Problem

I am discussing a recurring problem with an engineer on the phone. Bob S., my Customer Service Manger told me the problem occurred again today.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on March 3, 2015

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Change

First line manager: Change must be doable, seeable, and feelable.

First line managers are key to the success of a change in operations.

Story by Jim McGriff, Jr. on February 24, 2015

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