This weekly feature is for managers who don’t have time or don’t want to make time to read lengthy articles or even short paragraphs.  We call it a  Quick List.   AKA – 10 by 10 on Tuesday.   10 ( ideas or tips or questions or steps or ways to Get 2 Goal or Be a Better Manager, etc) by 10 (AM – EST) on Tuesdays.   Click here if you’d like to see all Quick Lists created to date.

This week’s Quick List is dedicated to Dads.  You’ll find good management tips here.  If reading it brings to mind any lessons you learned from your Dad – about ways to be a better manager, whether it’s managing  yourself or resources or people or morale or productivity – will you share them with us?

Here is a list of lessons from 8 different Dads.

1. Tough times never last but tough people do.   Read more in  Quote of the Week from Dad
2. The Seven Point Creed & Two Sets of Threes.  Details in Lessons from John Wooden’s Dad
3. Look for creative ways to collaborate.  Be ready to move fast!   Read more in Lesson from a Dad in a Chevrolet.
4. Drive through that turn.  Read more in  Lessons from Richard Petty’s Dad .
5. If you don’t take some chances, you will miss out on a whole lot of good things.   Shared by Norma Stilwell in response to Lessons from Dad.
6. If you give responsibility, give tools, support and authority too.  Read more in  Lesson from Dad on Running the Train
7. Take a stand.  Make expectations clear.  If you want them to take responsibility, give them responsibility.  Read more in Lessons from Mick Mixon’s Dad
8. Work hard.  Treat everyone with respect.   Read more in Lessons from Phil Ford’s Dad
9. When stuck between two seemingly equal choices, choose the one with more limited availability.  Read more in Lessons from Dad
10. Stay out there.  A lesson from the Hot Dog Dad.  Read more in Staying Out There.
11. Use ALL your strength.  A lesson from Dad in the garage  in this week’s brainteaser.

Great lessons from our Dads who sometimes demand – sometimes ask.  Sometimes push – sometimes pull.  Sometimes yell – and are sometimes silent.

All to help us find the track, clear the debris, stay on the accelerator and off the brake – so that we can drive THROUGH those turns.

All great lessons that help us be better managers – and better people.

What lessons from your Dad will you appreciate and celebrate – not just on Father’s Day – but every day?

Need Fathers Day Gift Ideas?  

• 13 Smart Green Economical Fathers Day Gifts
• Top 8 Frugal Father’s Day Gift Ideas
•  Eric Montross Father’s Day Basketball Camp – sold out this year but put on your calendar to sign up early next year because this sounds cool!
•  A Southern Season
• Gifts.com
• Amazon
• The Most Valuable Father’s Day Gift of All – details coming later today

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