"5 Tips From Tim Finchem For Managing Well"

Wall Street Journal online readers were deprived of five tips accompanying the "Boss Talk" interview with the PGA Tour Commissioner. However, because advice like this just can't be withheld from the online reading public, I share with you Tim Finchem's 5 Tips For Managing Well.

1. Do it now.

Succinct, highly original and said with such warmth. Do it now Senior Vice President No. 32 or you'll be a Vice President faster than you can say product incentivization!

2. Communicate, communicate, communicate.

Take that John Wooden!  Only two communicates would have been less, uh, impactful.

3. Seek consensus, but recognize when to sacrifice unanimity for decisiveness.

Well, we know Tim came up with that convoluted way of saying, $#@% the Policy Board, we'll do what I want to do! 

4. Remember that, as a leader of a team, you are also a member of that team.

Remember that, just because I am paid, $5.2 million, don't act like it.  

5. Take what you do seriously, but not yourself. 

There is no punchline for No. 5. It is a punchline. 

Comments

[Bench]

Do you dislike Tim Finchem or something?

</sarcasm>

[thusgone]

i wonder if there is any living person, aside from john huggan, that geoff does like . . .

[Geoff]

Now why would you guys think I dislike the Commissioner?

He is God's gift to blogging. I hope he never retires.

thusgone,
Who said I like Huggan? Please!

[RM]

I cannot wait to get to work tomorrow and plug these in. Who needs Zig Ziglar?

Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, Geoff likes me!

[OWGR Fan]

For Timmy boy numbers 1-5 have been much easier since Tiger turned pro.

[Aunt Blabbie]

"And pay yo'self a dyn-o-mite salary."