Technology, Strategy, People and Projects
When I first heard of participative management, I thought that it must be some ‘new fad’ (which isn’t true at all) and after reading a few things about this management model, I decided to dive a little deeper. Participative management has been defined by Barron’s as: An open form of management where employees have a [...]
The Slow Leadership blog has an interesting post about “Practicing Conscious Incompetence“. What is Conscious Incompetence? In a nutshell, it is the act of learning from failure, but Slow Leadership defines it as: “Conscious Incompetence” is doing something that you know you can’t yet do, let alone do well, for the purpose of learning how [...]
Do you ever take a break, step back and look at the world from your client’s viewpoint? I suspect that many successful consultants do but I sometimes wonder. Thinking Faster has a great post titled “Become your customer” and an excerpt is provided below: When was the last time you looked at your process or [...]
Still continuing my reading on Agile Project Management and ran across W. Edward Deming’s famous “Fourteen Principles of Management” again (for the hundredth time it seems). I read through the principles again and was amazed, as always, at how applicable these principles are in the modern world, even though they were conceived more than 60 [...]
Mark Lefcowitz has written an interesting article that has been posted on ZDNet UK titled "How to fix IT skill shortages and misalignments" and also on TechRepublic as "How to fix IT skill shortages and misalignments". The article describes the application of the Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints (TOC) to fixing the IT skill shortage. Mark [...]
Don Blohowiak has a new post on his “Leadership. Now.” blog titled “Endurance Reward” where he discusses the ‘old-timer, high salary’ issue within organizations. The main question of the article is: If you exclude assessments of merit and value from determining the worth of longevity, why pay a premium for tenure? I used to see [...]
David Maister posted another great article today relating to the almost relentless quest for corporate growth in todays marketplace. David writes: In most companies and firms, it is taken as a matter of unexamined faith that the organization must grow. A related article of faith is hat size matters – in marketing, in recruiting, in [...]
In a 2003 article in Harvard Business Review, the article titled “The Five Minds of a Manager” written by Jonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg, the authors address the question of the mindset of managers. The authors believe that there is too much emphasis on Leadership and not enough on Management within most organizations today when [...]
An article on the British Computer Society’s website titled “Companies claim formal IT qualifications unimportant” discusses a survey performed by IT market research company Vanson Bourne. Some results of the survey are: More than 70 percent of HR managers surveyed said they preferred to see relevant work experience on a candidate’s CV over formal qualifications. [...]
[Read More …]
Follow me