Your success, for you, your team, project and department, ultimately comes down to the choices that you make, especialy when faced with a big challenge (a "disabler")
The Disabler : “More and more decisions on my team and projects are being made outside of my team; sometimes I am not even consulted.”
Choice A : This is totally unacceptable. Go to the managers concerned and make it clear that you or your people must be involved in any and all key decisions.
Choice B : If you are not advised, then you are not trusted. Most organisations are federal and don’t run on hierarchal lines. Embrace and encourage this, and lead the process as a facilitator and business leader.
Make your choice, and put it into practice, always asking yourself that one key question - does this choice help me/us move forwards, or not...
This week - the best (i.e. they work) one-liners...
The best single line to diffuse the anger and emotion from an argument with a loved one...
"When you do that, it makes me feel really miffed"
Or similar - the key is to take the emotion out of the sutuation (rather than adding to it) and to change the state of the person you are with, positively, as opposed to entering that spiral of argument that you will both regret...
Tomorrow - The best way to form a single line when you are speaking, or writing, and I haven't followed it in this one...