“Managing-Up” is often on people’s radars. So is managing down, managing cross-wise, sideways and in every other imaginable GPS-like direction.  Just how to you get people to do (or at least listen) to what’s important to you especially if you don’t have the title or authority to force them to be your captive audience? It’s time to Author-Edit my friend. I created (or rather stumbled upon) this model more than a decade ago when working with Reuter’s News Service in London. Great group – those news service types… just a bit “blank” when it came to the inevitable discussion around managing or influencing others. Here’s how Author-Edit works- draw a square…

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Successful people look tired. Well not so much tired as downright frazzled.  It takes them a moment or two to remember the dog’s name, let alone their children’s ages.  You ask them how they are and they rattle off in a dazed stupor – “Busy… wow… you know – really, really busy.” Whatever happened to “Fine… thanks for asking. How ‘bout you?”

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