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Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work

"Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work". At first sight this quote from Peter Drucker is self-evident and I could let everyone meditate on it, certain that it generates a high level of consensus. However, things are never as simple as they seem and it deserves a number of comments. Complication, the bane of modern business I keep saying that complication is the bane of business, whether you look at it from the point of view of pure performance or from the point of...

Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work

"Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work". At first sight this quote from Peter Drucker is...

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years…

Some time ago I pointed out that, paradoxically, the dynamism of the digital world could be a factor of inertia in businesses. This is...

Computing is not about computers anymore. It’s about living. (Nicholas Negroponte – MIT Media Lab)

This quote from MIT Media Lab's Nicholas Negroponte must be one of those I use the most since it perfectly illustrates the paradigm shift...

Learn to look after your employees, the rest will follow (Richard Branson)

A so obvious advice from Richard Branson that I wonder why we still need to explain it and spread the word again and again. However,...

[Quote] Markets are conversations

"Markets are conversations" That's the first these of the cluetrain manifesto. No matter the documents dates from 1999, it's been used to trigger the earliest...

[Quote] In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data (Deming)

That's a quote many people like to mention but that's widely overlooked when it comes to actual work. It says that expect in one...

[Quote] “Tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave”

"Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way... do...

[Quote] The Social Network is the new production line. Ginni Rometty (IBM)

The Social Network is the new production line Ginni Rometty (CEO, IBM) This sentence from IBM's CEO is in line with many of my thoughts about...

[Quote] We should not expect an application to work in environments for which its assumptions are not valid

We should not expect an application to work in environments for which its assumptions are not valid Eliyahu M. Goldratt As you may have noticed, that's...

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