​The Management Coach has announced that Darcy Roberts will be taking ownership of The Management Coach effective January 1, 2023.

Darcy Roberts has been an Executive and Life Coach since 2015, and an integral member of The Management Coach team since 2016. Darcy brings with her more than 20 years of administrative experience across a variety of industries including the arts, law, finance, banking & executive search, and

A client of mine recently shared with me a 3-minute video by Simon Sinek describing why the title CEO needs to be changed to CVO - Chief Vision Office. I'm going to take the next 5 minutes to describe to you why that's a bad idea.

In Sinek's video, he suggests that the primary function of the CEO is to set the Vision. That's where he gets it only 20% right. 

Guest blog: Jane Mims

​It seems that over the last two years the polite practice of leaving political opinions outside the office place has gone by the wayside. Ever since 2016 people have felt more liberated to let their political flags fly whether there’s wind blowing or not. It doesn’t really matter if you or I think it’s inappropriate – it’s happening, so now we get to deal with it. Yippee! 

What are OKRs?

OKRs (Objectives - Key Results) are a format for setting performance objectives. They were developed at Intel by then-CEO, Andy Grove, in the early 70s, and made famous by Google in recent years. The format is based off of Peter Drucker’s Management by Objectives (MBO) approach.

A manager or employee creates an objective for their role, and then describes key results that would demonstrate success against those objectives. This process is outlined in the late Andy Grove’s book, High Output Management, as well as John Doerr’s new book, Measure What Matters. ​

​John Doerr worked for Grove at Intel in the 70s, and eventually became a venture capitalist advising his network of leaders (Larry Page, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, etc.) to implement OKRs in their organizations. OKRs are now the most popular objectives-setting format for tech companies around the world.

In October 2017 I conducted a survey of 187 managers. The majority of respondents had over 10 years of experience managing people. Overwhelmingly the respondents prioritized managing up as the highest ranked topic they would find most useful to receive training on.

Conversely, these managers experienced training programs primarily targeted at managing down. It begs the question then... where does one learn how to manage up? Let's start here...