2 Posts found for Author: David Maister

Here’s a simple diagnostic tool that can be used to facilitate your firm’s discussions of the characteristics it seeks in a leader.

The questions that follow include a series of “paired” qualities that a good leader might possess. In each pair, either quality may be desirable. However, the point of pairing these qualities is to ask, “if there had to be a choice between the two … [ Read more ]

Author: David Maister | Source: Selecting a CFO: Do We Know What We Want? | Subject: CEO / Executive Questions

• Did you choose people for managerial roles because they were the type of people who could get their fulfillment and satisfaction out of helping other people shine rather than having the ego-need to shine themselves?
• Did you select them because they had a prior history of being able to give a critique to someone in such a way that the other person says: “Wow,

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Author: David Maister | Source: Why (Most) Training is Useless | Subject: Human Resources Questions