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So, you want to be Agile?

Where should authority lie? So, you want to become “Agile”? You have heard of “Self-Organising Teams”. The general advice is to empower these teams… but you have misgivings, the results […]

Conscious Unconscious Incompetence

Have you any idea about how much you don’t know? The four stages of learning any skill, according to Noel Burch (and occasionally attributed to Abraham Maslow) start with Unconscious […]

Micro Managed or Empowered Employees?

The original text to accompany the picture suggested that, “it was up to the HR department to contact their employees to say it’s a work at home day.” The point […]

Accountability? Humbug!

One thing I commonly hear in my line of business is of a Manager asking a team or an individual for an estimate of how long it will take to […]

Death by Hierarchy – Youmanage

A hierarchy has advantages; it is simple, straightforward, easy to understand. It has problems; I will deal briefly with two that both illustrate the “single point of failure” problem. When […]

Theory X, Theory Y and Prophecies

Exploring Employee Supervision and Management Style. In brief, Theory X and Theory Y, formulated by Douglas McGregor at MIT Sloane School of Management in the ‘60s, are about Management’s attitude to […]