5 Management Zingers: Vol. 1 No. 4
Here are my current top 5 management ZINGERS.
4 Questions to Caring Cultures from Brain Based Business invited leaders to ask 4 questions. I encourage you to read this article. Here is questions 1:
How can fun and brilliance spark innovation? It seems to me that Google asked this question as it created a corporate environment where one software engineer commented …”It’s like they (employees) are the CEO of their own little company.”
30 Good Posts You May Have Missed: A History of Businesspundit. This post collects some of the best posts from the past 5 years from this site. The first post he mentions really made the rounds…
1. The Wisdom Fallacy, Why Management Is Really Like Math - This is a short post, but after I wrote it, I received an email from a student at Vanderbilt who said he forwarded this post to his father. His father is friends with Charlie Munger, and forwarded the post to him. He enjoyed it so much that he forwarded it to Warren Buffett. So I’m very proud to say that Warren Buffett has read something I wrote. Unfortunately, while it’s an important idea, I don’t think this post flows that well.
Management by Numbers: Be Very Afraidby Scott Herrick looks at the possible dangers of too strong a focus on the numbers. Here is a well written snippet from the article on the difference between using the numbers or run the business versus running the business according to the numbers:
When managers use numbers to run the business, they are all involved in the story behind the numbers. They want to understand what the numbers are telling them about the state of the business. They want to know so they can change what is being done with the business to make it better. But when a manager runs the business according to numbers, the world changes. No longer does the story matter. No longer does your input count as to what can make the business better. No longer, even, do logical and rational reasoning make a difference. No longer do innovative ideas on improving the business matter. No, what matters is the number. Not the story.
Rats! by Tim Wright weaves together The Year of the Rat with employee engagement. Tim’s title was one of my favorite titles for a post.
The Year of the Rat is believed to be a good time to start something new: new product, new process, new strategy, new emphasis. You probably already know where I’m going: new culture, as in Employee Engagement Culture. Remember, I work from the belief-point that people have the inherent desire to be engaged, to improve their performance. The manager’s job is to provide the CORE factors that allow employees to follow that desire. Opportunity is one of the CORE components. Why not involve your organization’s Rats — and everyone else — in Opportunity Forums? (Forum: A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation.)
Hope you didn’t miss… is a summary post from Dan and Chip Heath of Made to Stick about some of the best business books. I agree with their choices from The Paradox of Choice to Carol Dweck’s Mindset. Here is a short snippet on a book I was not familiar with but I will look into thanks to their post:
Group Genius by Keith Sawyer. This book should have been a big bestseller. Sawyer has spent years studying comedy improv groups and jazz bands, and he’s written a provocative book on how to get the best creative work from groups. You need to know what he has to say on brainstorming — there are techniques you’re probably using now that don’t work, and there are techniques you wouldn’t think to try that may work brilliantly.
5 Zingers is collated by David Zinger
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