Tag: management
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy This is a management point I’ve…
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Business as usual is the only way rigid organisations can operate; workers are shown only what to do, but not why they do it. They are not paid to make value judgements; in fact they are forbidden to do so. When circumstances change, someone with a bit of wisdom would recognise the fact and perhaps…
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In an API-driven cloud, Intigua wants to wrap APIs around your management midsection
A report I wrote on Intigua is up now. Here’s the 451 Take for y’all now: Intigua has always been a company with a difficult marketing proposition, having started off as a packaging and deployment balm for systems management agents. While there is certainly utility to ‘managing the managers,’ a broader positioning and purpose was…
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Think big, but have small, short, and focused meetings
Have 15 minutes be the default. Sure, sounds interesting. See also Rumsfeld’s meeting rules which opens with a more management take on what meetings are for: If you think about it, a meeting’s function is to pool an organization’s collective wisdom and knowledge in one room, making it easier for a manager to learn what…
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\”software-defined washing\” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference
[“software-defined washing” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference](http://www.information-age.com/it-management/strategy-and-innovation/123458008/it-leaders-convene-london-uks-first-software-defined-conference)
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The research reported in this book … shows that in the cases of well-managed firms… . good management was the most powerful reason they failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…
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No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time
[M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were completed, improving economic efficiency, maximizing labor and machine productivity. Not a lot of creativity is needed; in fact, it might even be inefficient.” And as I like to point out: he didn’t actually make the trains run on time. No creativity needed to…
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Why your company needs a single P&L
On this week’s Critical Path, Horace gives a great overview of why a functional organization is a better way to achieve goals that are dashed by self-cannibalism FUD; that is: why your company should have just one P&L.
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Why it’s an endless churn
The endless search for an organizational handle on the market – that is, rational structures to deal with the irrational – coupled with managers’ ambitions and what I shall call their mobility panic, fuel a never-ending succession of personnel changes, marked by intense personal rivalries, in virtually all big corporations. —Moral Mazes This books keeps…
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