A Modern System of Management
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The Chief Executive and the Lightbulb: How we think about performance management
As I talked, I noticed that the Chief Executive was no longer listening. She had gone into that state of deep thought, staring up and away into the distance; thinking intensely: thinking about something – I had no idea what. I decided not to disturb those...
4G Balanced scorecards are about more flexible management systems
Kotter puts it very well, ” Management is about making sure the system runs in the organisation; whereas leaders choose and design the management system that the organisation needs”. In “Reinventing management”, Julian Birkinshaw writes about...
The Psychology of Management: Taking the long view
I am quite interested in the psychology of management because I think we tend to adopt psychological models of how management works, and how change happens, without necessarily questioning their assumptions and continued validity, or applicability. I also find that...
Reinventing how we manage for today’s management challenges
Reinventing how we manage from first principles. Given a continuing climate of austerity, uncertainty and international competition, most executives are under pressure to improve their organisations through costs, productivity or revenues. The focus for change has...
We manage by absorbing friction – and building up heat!
What role do, and should, our management systems play in protecting from, and connecting our organisations to, the volatility and uncertainty of the outside world? At a recent management presentation I suggested that the way we manage is designed to absorb friction. ...
Managing organisations in the same ways birds manage to fly together
Treat this as an off the wall, whimsical post – with a serious intent…. One thing that we all see far too much of – Management. One problem with many organisations is that we spend too much time managing, we create too many rules and practices and...
