Tag: management
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The Peter Principle – by Nicholas Decker – “Promotions are used as incentives, even if they don’t always match future competence.”
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Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge – “Overall, our results do not support the argument that managers impose these mandates to increase firm values,” the authors state in their paper. “Instead, these findings are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for…
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Are executives prepared for employees that 30% more productive?
Now that we’ve replaced all these people with a robot, how can we climb the CAGR? I was a guest on the Cloudcast this week. I go over how I use AI and then Brian and I discuss how companies could get more use out of AI. Most of it, I think, rests on how…
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Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy – Good excerpts and book notes on (corporate) strategy. // “A strategy coordinates action to address a specific challenge.” // Meanwhile, here is the problem with relying too much on war for your case studies: war focusing on killing people to achieve its “business outcomes.”
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Our Favorite Management Tips of 2024 – “Add up your total score. If you rated any of these items a 4 or a 5, you have some workaholic tendencies. But if your total score is 15 or above, you’re displaying significant signs of workaholism.”
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Why are corporations cutting managers? – “a large share of a company’s work force does not produce widgets. Instead, they produce organizational capital.” // Also, what if employee (individual contributor) productivity meant less managers?
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Hey, wait – is employee performance really Gaussian distributed?? – Where there’s a bell curve, beware bullshit. Also, we all know this stack ranking practice is not good, right?
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Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron – Why you do tops-down management and lots of meetings in larger, more mature companies.
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Managing managers is its own skill – “I remember when a new executive was brought in to Freddie Mac at a high level in the IT department. My colleague Mary pointed out to me that he did not bring anyone with him from his former position. She saw that as a bad sign, suggesting that…
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– Navigating Private Equity ownership. – A memo template for R&D’s plans after private equity. Basically: here’s how we’ll spend less money and use attrition to lower staff costs (hire more junior people as senior people leave).
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– From Agile to Radical: conflict – How management can deal with: “There are at least three consequences of unresolved conflict that I’ve experienced in practice: unaddressed business areas, repeated patterns of unproductive behavior and undoing each other’s progress.” // A little bit on European work-culture too.
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Executive translation. – “Many high-agency managers try to prevent executives from doing silly things, but it’s almost always more effective to translate their energy for a silly thing into energy for a useful thing. It also leaves the executive feeling supported by your work rather than viewing you as an obstacle to their progress.”
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Don’t be results-oriented – Make sure your factory is functioning well.
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“Consistency” – the less platforms, the better
Have you tried having less? Standardized. Centralized. Consistent. Those words I use over and over when talking about platforms. In large organizations, you’ve got hundreds, even thousands, of applications. There are likely tens of “platforms”: the stacks of runtime and middleware goo that all those apps run on. Maybe even hundreds if the company is…
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Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs. Come up with metrics and needs from the (economic/strategic) stakeholder who has the power to make changes.…
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Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped RTO would make staff quit – Also, people on the office feel the need to “look busy.”
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3 traits of an entrepreneurial mindset – Yes, and…how can executives setup a system where behaving like this is possible, encourages, and continuously improves? That type of work is often bundled under the phrase “psychological safety” which can come off as too…humane? A system like lean presents as more cold-blooded and analytical: something you can…
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Everyone hates Workday – “Workday reveals what’s important to the people who run Fortune 500 companies: easily and conveniently distributing busy work across large workforces. This is done with the arbitrary and perfunctory performance of work tasks (like excessive reviews) and with the throttling of momentum by making finance and HR tasks difficult. If your…
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“Management avoids firing people with paper trails.” Corporate Camouflage
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The State of Platform Engineering surveys – Perforce/Puppet 2024
When I look at recent platform engineering surveys, the results are positive: people see the value in platforms and platform groups. I’d say this is because platforms are helping speed up the app release cycle by automating a lot of the infrastructure work app developers would otherwise need to do, baking in/automating security and compliance,…
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