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3 simple ideas for leading in today’s turbulent workplaces
My, 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.
A more soulful way to manage?
Dry 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?
Save time (and cut costs) by spending as much time as you need with each person
It 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.
Rational data analysts have to consider motive first
Sometimes 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?
Let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy… Read more Let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition
Is the essence of new management the promotion of self-esteem?
We are right. Oh, hold on. We were wrong. Completely and utterly wrong. Have you been in a situation, say,… Read more Is the essence of new management the promotion of self-esteem?
By our metrics we shall be known: selection for the knowledge industries of the global information age
Metrics Metrics are good. They make us do something that psychologists call “operationalize”. Operationalize isn’t some complicated Freudian notion. It… Read more By our metrics we shall be known: selection for the knowledge industries of the global information age
Searching questions about management in the 21st century
So you want to be a manager? Harvard Professor, Gary Hamel asks “What problem was management invented to solve?” How… Read more Searching questions about management in the 21st century
3 key ideas to management in the 21st century
What is management after all? In the discussion following his post on performance management on FastForward today, Jon Husband of… Read more 3 key ideas to management in the 21st century