Management

What does management in complexity look like?

Moving away from heroic leadership to understand the power of working *with* people.

We’re currently working on the leadership of middle leaders at Research in Practice…

What does autonomy support look like?

We need to help people to work out what the best thing to do is, as opposed to forcing them to comply or defy.

The way we measure is out of date

We have been measuring our work against things that are easy to measure but tell that us very little of our value

My Annual Review

An open overview of how I and the team have been doing

Leadership: Be the change that you want to see in the world

People used to become managers because of their competence. They would become experts at a task, and then they would be promoted to manage a team based on that skill set. Credibility came from how tasks were performed.

The end of weekly meetings

We’ve recently decided to put an end to our weekly events team meetings, at least as a weekly standard occurrence.

These meetings were quite useful to begin with, as I was new to the organisation and didn’t really know what anyone’s working week looked…

Responsibility and public services

‘Running services from an economy of scale perspective ensures that there is little useful…