Jobs: Alexander Orlov, managing partner "stratoplane"

Who is more difficult to learn - adults or children?

it was not possible to work with children. But I have three of their - 3, 12 and 14 years. When the elder began a transitional age, to communicate with him became unbearable. Then I read that adolescents are actively develops critical thinking, which they train in disputes with adults (with peers uninteresting). I began to treat disputes as training, I ceased to be irritated, communicating adjusted.

But adults do not learn as children at school. They have their own experience, their threshold of criticality and skepticism. And while it does not get over, not dostuchishsya to the brain. We have to look for new methods: the inverted classes, project learning, and so on.

How effective online learning?

Online, not touched by the hand of man, do not get up close to him. Nonverbal channels do not work.

But online learning more opportunities than people think. For example, if you bring people together in a group and share the, for example, a document in Google Docs, obtained steep brainstorming. It is possible to carry out the negotiation fights on Skype and so on.

Due to the duration of training, properly structured methodology and the availability of experts and information online to learn sometimes more effective than stand in traffic jams and go to classes.

How does your workplace?

Now I work from the office. We've got an entire studio. It looks something like this.

• Light - 3 lamps giving 500 watts each.
• Brand Wall - 3 meters wide and 2.5 meters in height.
• Flipchart with notepad so that you can explain your thoughts.
• Two computers for translation (for each video capture card).
• Camera Sony HDR-CX400E.
• Clicker to remotely switch the presentation slides.
• A large TV, which displays questions from the audience.
• The monitor, which displays slides.

When you need to write an article, I get out of the studio in the anti-café. I take with a Dell XPS laptop and mobile phone Samsung Galaxy S8 +.

In this case, all notices me off. If disaster strikes, call me, and to work with the text need state of flux.

Even in the mail do not look?

Previously, my day is determined by the flow of incoming messages. At Intel, I came to work, opened the Outlook, falling out stack of letters to me. You begin to rake it all, immediately pulled your employees and colleagues: "Sasha, well, that you've come, have a couple of questions."

All day to wade through these tasks falling. By evening all razgrob, and in the morning you come to work, you open the Outlook... Groundhog Day!

The best advice on time management - do not read e-mail in the morning.

When I followed him and stopped to check e-mail during the first hours of the morning, it was very unusual. Now I had to think what to do. I decided to develop as a businessman: listening to podcasts, read other people's, and wrote his article.

In the morning, spend two hours by yourself, there is a great feeling that this day has not lived in vain. This gives a burst of energy, by which easily copes with routine work. Ambient wonder what you so flooded. And the thing properly conducted by the morning.

And how are you planning things?

I will write the plans for the day, then stop. Plans are important, but more important to understand that and what you're doing. Task lists, work and home, leading to Wunderlist (simple, convenient and nothing more). Calendar events, call and webinars controlled via Google Calendar, disable shared between the team and the students.

At some point I come to what I'm wondering do fun and useful things in the mode "Pirate attacks": together, work hard, in the end turned out the project, which is not ashamed about tell. It fills me with energy.

What qualities and skills of a good manager? And how to develop them?

Personality (focus on results, accountability, etc.) do not develop, or develop very bad. Therefore, they usually everything is decided by the selection.

Navykovye competence (the ability to public speakingDelegate, to select people in the team, to write letters) can be developed. Techniques are turned.

The most worthwhile way to develop the skills - to do.

You do not know how to speak in public? See this video on YouTube Radislav Gandapas about public speaking, prepare presentation to colleagues (students, family, friends), speaking, writing yourself on camera. Then look at the record and cries and notes that the correct.

You yourself know how to delegate authority?

I think yes. But that does not prevent me from earning. When you are very passionate about business, you start to process. But lately, I try to transmit the team everything. I pass immediately.

Yes, people will make mistakes. Well, okay, I'm their tinkering, if that. But in another way, they do not gain experience. When they're wrong, I'm just happy (they are not), because they become more experienced.

Whether physical activity is important for productivity or is it a myth?

At first it seemed to me that it is not necessary. Charging? Come on! But then I hung up the horizontal bar at home, the children were moved up, and noticed that somehow they are not tightened. I decided to show by example how to, and became involved. Since then, four years now train. Energy became much more - it's true.

My element - dumbbells, pull-ups, push-ups. The first six months was engaged with the coach then decided that he himself can. Usually I have four workouts per week for one hour: legs, shoulders, triceps, chest, back, biceps, press each workout.

I get a kick out of how the muscles are sore the next day. If good work out, get sick on the same day. It becomes more energy, great feel. Perhaps now, in 39 years, I'm in the best shape at all times.

What are three books you recommend to read the managers?

I think training is more useful books, but still has a must-Rida.

1. "The development of leaders. How to understand your style of management and communicate effectively with speakers of other styles "Isaac Adizes

ideal leader It does not exist, because the leadership consists of four components that are to one another in some way contradict.

People of another type we often perceive a hostile reception because the novice manager own typology of people, "There are people like me, and wrong." This book is written, how to communicate with people of other types: These phrases do not tell them, but they are talking about.

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2. "The human factor: the successful projects and teams," Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

This book is at one time turned my idea of ​​the team management, showing that pressure on people - it's not the best way to control.

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3. "Rigid management. Get people to work on the result, "Dan Kennedy

And this book many years later added to my picture of the world the fact that the head should not be all soft. Sometimes you have to be tough, especially if you're the owner of the company.

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And what are the three video managers need to look?

1. Svetlana Ivanova, "Arts recruitment». A comprehensive brief tutorial how to select people, equipment and methods of preparing the right questions for the interview.
2. «Constructive confrontation, or how to resolve conflicts schemes». This is one of my webinars, where I told HR-specialists how to resolve conflicts. It is a technique of one of the founders of Intel's Andy Grove that we have finished.
3. Speech by Vladimir Gerasicheva incomprehensible to the audience. For an idea of ​​what you need, it is important, it is possible, selection and so on. When watching, there was a feeling that I had turned over the brain.

What is your final farewell to the readers?

Live so that there is something to tell the grandchildren about, and be yourself. Another possible to lie, to inflate their status, but does not sovrosh.

Therefore, my friends, do what you're wondering. Read books, read Layfhaker, me and go your way. And then just about anything will tell our grandchildren.