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Eliminate Management from the 20th Century

Eliminate Management from the 20th Century

Anthony Coppedge

Eliminate Management from the 20th Century

What if the 20th century definition of “Manager” and “Leader” both need to be updated to reflect how the world has forever changed?

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A black and white photo of a steno pool worked by women in mid-1950s haircuts and clothing. Perched on each woman’s desk is a lab-coated figure whose head has been replaced by the red staring eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Each red eye is emitting a cone of red light that engulfs a different woman’s head. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

A black and white photo of a steno pool worked by women in mid-1950s haircuts and clothing. Perched on each woman’s desk is a lab-coated figure whose head has been replaced by the red staring eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Each red eye is emitting a cone of red light that engulfs a different woman’s head. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

Cory Doctorow

Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell

As ever, the important thing isn’t what the gadget does, it’s who it does it for and who it does it to.

Mar 15

The Bureaucratization of Agile

Kevin Meadows

The Bureaucratization of Agile

Why Bureaucratic Software Environments Aren’t Agile

Feb 12

Technological Taylorism: The Automation of Efficiency and the Future of Work

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Technological Taylorism: The Automation of Efficiency and the Future of Work

I hope I am wrong…

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Utilization Considered Harmful

Kevin Meadows

Utilization Considered Harmful

Why It’s Costly Keeping Everyone Busy in Software Organizations

Nov 6, 2023

Shifting Perspectives: From Mechanistic Machines to Living Systems

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Shifting Perspectives: From Mechanistic Machines to Living Systems

“Deep in most of us, below our awareness, indelibly implanted there by three centuries of the industrial age, is the mechanistic…

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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT & AMAZON: The Mechanization of the Human

Rev. Dr. Lee Cypher

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT & AMAZON: The Mechanization of the Human

Lee A. Carleton, PhD.

Apr 20, 2021

Gastev painting ‘We grow from iron’

K. Muralidharan

Lenin, Taylor and ecological implications of the socialist organisation of production

What about the socialised production of capitalism? Can it simply be taken over? Can the ‘up-to-date achievements of capitalism’ be taken…

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