Better Management
Essays on management as a force for good.
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Working harder is not the answer
Working harder is not the answer
As we are entering this year’s fourth and final quarter, we have 12 weeks to go before Christmas! Although it seems as if we’ve only just…
The double folly of life inside organisations and how we might end it
The double folly of life inside organisations and how we might end it
Most organisations put only a fraction of their capacity to productive use. People work hard, but in more and more organisations it seems…
What if we made annual objective setting actually useful?
What if we made annual objective setting actually useful?
The annual objective setting process as practiced in most organisations is badly broken. It is bureaucratic, consumes an enormous amount of…
Management needs design
Management needs design
To make the case for why management needs design, I first need to clarify what I mean with the terms management and design. That’s the…