Posts Tagged with ‘management’
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5 pack of slides on complexity theory, leadership, management and psychology
19 Jul 2011I prepared these slides to help students revise and consolidate what they know about complex adaptive systems, psychology, management, leadership,…
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3 simple ideas for leading in today’s turbulent workplaces
31 Mar 2011My, hasn't work, and the theory of work, changed since the 70's. Well so it should but strangely psychologists and work theorists didn't expect work to change. So our theories didn't put change at their very core. Funnily, the theory has become simpler as work has become more turbulent. Simple, but, young or old, you will have to let go of old ideas.
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A more soulful way to manage?
06 Feb 2011Dry sterile thunder without rain. T.S. Elliott did not say that about work but there is a growing community of people who bring rain to relieve "dry sterile thunder" in their work. Will you contribute?
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Save time (and cut costs) by spending as much time as you need with each person
12 Jul 2010It is counter-intuitive, I know, but taking the problems of each person seriously, for what they are, saves time. The arithmetic doesn't suggest it, but Year 6 arithmetic is the wrong analytical tool. It is also lousy psychology and lousy management theory.
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Rational data analysts have to consider motive first
13 Jun 2010Sometimes we are frustrated by clients who appear to make multi-million important decisions on the basis of whim rather than data. Maybe we are the ones who have it wrong?
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Let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition
18 Apr 2010Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy…
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Is the essence of new management the promotion of self-esteem?
26 Mar 2010We are right. Oh, hold on. We were wrong. Completely and utterly wrong. Have you been in a situation, say,…
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Searching questions about management in the 21st century
17 Mar 2010So you want to be a manager? Harvard Professor, Gary Hamel asks “What problem was management invented to solve?” How…
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3 key ideas to management in the 21st century
13 Mar 2010What is management after all? In the discussion following his post on performance management on FastForward today, Jon Husband of…
