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Management

Control from within

October 17, 2020October 17, 2020

As a manager, I want to tell a team what I need and they make it. Is that too much to ask? It depends what you mean by “tell.” Without the information we need, work is like “Bring me a stone.” In this game, the Boss says to the Worker, “Bring me a stone.” The …

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Tags agile, Management, systems, Systems Thinking, tdd

Your Goals Are Holding You Back

December 19, 2018

“Enter your concrete goals for the next six months.” This software is supposed to help your career. Seriously? If the best I can do is something I could name six months ago, I am not learning anything. If I hit some metric, what did I ignore or sacrifice to get there? Knowledge work is about …

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Tags Goals, Management

Deference or Collaboration: pick one.

May 26, 2019December 17, 2017

There’s this church near my house, with a statue of Mary Magdalene. She’s the picture of deference. As a child and as a Christian, I was raised to see deference as a virtue, to find this statue beautiful. As an adult and as a systems thinker, I learned that deference is dangerous. Nora Bateson pointed …

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Tags Management, Parenting, Systems Thinking

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