A new week, a new era dawns, I am participating in a new blog, where we are exploring the future of work and organization – TRAJB
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TRAJB – exploring the new world of work and organization
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Future, Management, Networking, Organization
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Does a manager’s personality and values affect job performance?
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Management
In one sense a manager is paid to do the job and act and behave in such a way that goes with the job and company policies. What the job is and which behaviors are required should be very clear. A person considering a job as a manager then needs to assess his/her own personality, [...]
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Why do we have Matrix organisations?
April 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Management, Organization
This is a response to a LinkedIn question. Forrest Christian suggested in a comment to another post that I post my responses here as well. Those of you are LinkedIn members can read the whole question and all other answers here . My answer was: No matter how a company is organized formally, for stuff to [...]
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The Matrix revisited
April 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Management, Organization
The matrix is an organizational mystery to me. So popular, so reviled, so dysfunctional, so often suggested by the major consultancies. My first encounter with the matrix was in the eighties when one of the major consultancies had suggested a matrix to the big international chemicals company where I was working. Fantastic product company, but [...]
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Organizations, bandwidth and social networking
January 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Management, Organization
I have read that the human bandwidth for communicating with and perceiving the outer world that is 10- 11 Megabits per second, most of it visual. We are not conscious of most of this information flow. Consciously, we can handle 30 to 40 bits per second. This of course has implications on how we manage [...]
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Only the one at the top can get away by doing nothing
December 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Management
Managers and those of us who work with them need to be aware of the jokes and cynicism about managers and what they do. The crow is sitting at the top of a tree and doing nothing. A rabbit passes by. Rabbit: “That looks great, can I do nothing as well?” Crow: “Of course. Just [...]
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Metaphors we organize by
November 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Management
Often when I interview people in organizations I ask them which animal they would liken the company to. The responses are interesting and very revealing of how they perceive the culture of the organization. After all there are huge differences between squirrels, boars, elephants and cats. When I ask them to tell me more I [...]
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Keep your eye on the ball
November 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Management
Whoever won a match by looking at a set of instruments showing the speed, angle and forecast path of the ball. Yet that is how most business seems to be managed. Many years ago I was working with a major ski resort hotel and their change and development. I was there in off season when [...]
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Why are managers outsourcing their core function?
November 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Management
I am thinking a lot about what managers do and should be doing. Mainly because I have undertaken to help a major national authority to structure its demands on management training dependent on levels of work. Since we all started talking about the knowledge economy I have been trying to get my head around how [...]
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