Busting management myths I love social psychology, it fascinates me. I particularly like experiments. It is one thing to put forward a theory about why people behave the way that they do; it is another thing altogether to prove it with some data. Let me give you an example, how should you set up an office? […]
A World Without Objectives
Objectives: could we manage without them? How would we cope? The guys in H.R. would throw up their hands in horror. We couldn’t rate our staff. Pay for performance would flounder. Annual appraisals would become a farce. We wouldn’t know what we were doing. How could we manage our businesses? But how do we manage with objectives? They just get […]
The Management Dilemma
Scientific management Some people think management is a science. It has clear rights and wrongs, with best practices to follow and benchmarks to beat. Success lies in targets, goals and objectives; building the right processes and having the right infrastructure. Organisations are just machines. By applying cold hard logic you will get results. Clarity is a good […]
Why Do You Have a Boss?
Pre History In the primordial swamp, single cell organisms developed. They formed symbiotic relationships. These relationships needed controlling. So the organisms developed hormones, nervous systems and brains to help them function. The bacteria came before the lion. Ancient History On the fertile plains, people grouped together. They built villages and towns. As the towns grew they […]
Blame and Ignorance
I made a fool of myself yesterday I had a road rage incident. Well it wasn’t so much road rage as pedestrian rage. I was crossing the street on my way to the railway station and some clown in 4 by 4 damn near ran me over. It ended up in a slagging match between me and […]
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