Category Ideas

You may have heard of the Eisenhower Decision Matrix.

It is a valuable survival heuristic in a conventional management hierarchy, but it’s not where we want to take management in the 21st Century.

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Conventional 20th Century management is baked into so much language and so many ideas and models. The world has moved on; we are better now, more enlightened. We understand how management can be different so as to make work better. This site is all about that.
But still the hierarchal, command-driven, mechanistic, dehumanising ideas linger all over the place.

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Enough of the advice on how to be tough and cope with the heat in the kitchen.

We should seek not only who are strong and can take the abuse. People who are sensitive, caring, quiet, delicate, they all have something to contribute to the diversity.

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We use Shu-Ha-Ri a lot. At one of our clients, the IT folk are finding it hard work to come up with a good set of IT skills, so I referred them to the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) to populate their Shu-Ha-Ri model. Clients will be able to use this to get where you want. The risk is that it is too complicated.  If so, you should look at the European Competence Framework (e-CF) instead.

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If people don’t own responsibility or accountability, there are reasons.

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We want to move away from centralised authority and solo decision making, and the concept of chain of command.

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What Open Work requires from you. It’s not ALL on your bosses.

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Cynefin is situational, it is for sense-making. It says as much about what we know as what is happening. Eg reality is never Confused, it knows.

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Accounting treats humans as a cost not an asset. This is a perfect example of how the system drives the behaviour. Fix the system. It may be the most important example of all.

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Story telling is one of the most powerful persuaders of all.  Use stories: case studies, interviews, personal testimonials….

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