Hard truths of management
(Adam) I have been doing some work on developing my companies offer and looking at a range of sources, some academic, some from the real world and came across this:
http://www.f-laws.com/
Rusell Ackoff is a Wharton professor and outlines some simple truths/ laws that organisations often end up submitting to. It makes for interesting reading and i am sure that we will all see behaviours we have either experienced or been guilty of ourselves. There is a free short pdf that you can download and have a look through.
http://www.f-laws.com/
Rusell Ackoff is a Wharton professor and outlines some simple truths/ laws that organisations often end up submitting to. It makes for interesting reading and i am sure that we will all see behaviours we have either experienced or been guilty of ourselves. There is a free short pdf that you can download and have a look through.
posted by Adam French at 3:14 AM
2 Comments:
I particularly like the law of a bureacracy - enabling people to say no but not yes. We live in such a risk adverse culture. As a mum I feel like that's the default for taking care of kids now - a kiddie bureacracy. If there's the slightest most random risk then the default is no!
pam
My favorite f-Laws were:
1. Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure
2. The less important an issue is, the more time managers spend discussing it (great rationale from Bibb - trivial issues have less at stake and involve easier decisions)
3. The more important the problem a manager asks consultants for help on, the less useful and more costly their solutions (I've never seen any work of lasting value come from a biz consulting firm)
4. Overheads, slides and power point are not visual aids to managers, they transform managers into auditory aids to the visuals (business' love affair with PPT breaks my heart)
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