There are phrases, quotes, whose meaning is immediately obvious and resonates like the obvious. Others tickle your intellect without at first sight meaning anything particularly interesting or brilliant, and you want to find a meaning for them, ideally brilliant, even though their author certainly had no ambitions in this respect.
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When a business or a team fails, particularly in an emergency situation, the same root causes are always present : rigid leadership, internal conflicts, ineffective communication, lack of information sharing, to name but the most common.
And even in non-crisis or emergency situations, the same causes end up causing the same effects....
It's a good idea to demonstrate a certain “sense of urgency” in one's skills, something sought-after and valued by companies in a world where, as we keep repeating, everything keeps speeding up.
When urgency is counterproductive
This famous sense of urgency, which is in some people's DNA or an acquired skill...
Hierarchy as a factor of organizational complication
When we talk about pyramids, we're of course talking about the hierarchical pyramid, which is the culprit behind so many ills, including bureaucracy and the excessive complication of organizations , which means that as soon as a new subject arises, the width of the base...
A manager gives an instruction, entrusts an assignment, and at the moment of presenting his work or debriefing his results, the employee comes forward quite confident, satisfied, if not more so, with the work he has done.
Then disaster strikes! Nothing goes right, it doesn't live up to expectations, and the employee...
We've already talked about the loneliness of remote employees (What the loneliness of some remote workers really tells us), and about creating connections between employees , which is a more complex subject than it seems (People are back in the office? So what?), and now it's time to talk about the...
Is management still a profession or, as some believe, a role that will become obsolete as society and organizations evolve?
This was the question debated at an event presenting a Lucca study on the professional aspirations of the French (The French and work: changing aspirations and worsening conditions). Experts faced off in battles on...
The other day I was talking to someone about management and leadership, and we got to talking about authority. While we agreed on the harmfulness of petty bosses, the person I was talking to said something like:
“It's no longer in line with the values of a responsible company, and authoritarian...
People thinkthatall they need to do is set clear and realistic objectives and they will no longer have to worry about whether or not employees are actually working when doing remote work. This is in fact a necessary but not sufficient condition: the qualities of the manager also play an...
In 2009 , Netflix published a 125-page document summarizing its culture and vision of work, which at the time caused quite a stir. At the beginning of the summer, an updated version was put online, and this is an opportunity to look back at this rather disruptive document and see...
