hierarchy

Here's a scenario. The CEO of your company needs to do a big review presentation to shareholders/analysts/investors/holding company bigwigs. So they brief 5 of their direct reports asking for contributions to help put it together, your boss being one.

by: Sigurd Rinde

You Know Something Is Wrong...

With management theory when the Roman army established that ten subordinates per boss was the right number (decurions, centurions..), and now 2,000 years later, 100 years of management schools and 40,000 management handbooks in print we believe the right number is eight.

With management practice when those 40,000 management handbooks does not help much.

by: Sigurd Rinde

In these day of New Year Resolutions, Five Things You Do Not Know About Me and Hugh’s rapidly increasing list of Manifests I crumbled under pressure (thanks Hugh!).

Actually, manifesto? Well, more like a summary of reasons why we’re doing the thingamy:

by: Sigurd Rinde

A few months ago Bob Sutton graciously sent me his and Jeffrey Pfeffer's latest (available) book - "Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management".

by: Sigurd Rinde

Of all questions I get, this is my favourite : "Could we use thingamy to change the organisation?"

To which I enthusiastically answer: "But of course, thingamy can even replace the organisational hierarchy!"

The organisational hierarchy's purpose is to organise the processes, the work flows and distribute work orders one way and reports the other.