Where should authority lie? So, you want to become “Agile”? You have heard of “Self-Organising Teams”. The general advice is to empower these teams… but you have misgivings, the results […]

Have you any idea about how much you don’t know? The four stages of learning any skill, according to Noel Burch (and occasionally attributed to Abraham Maslow) start with Unconscious […]

A hierarchy has advantages; it is simple, straightforward, easy to understand. It has problems; I will deal briefly with two that both illustrate the “single point of failure” problem. When […]

Exploring Employee Supervision and Management Style. In brief, Theory X and Theory Y, formulated by Douglas McGregor at MIT Sloane School of Management in the ‘60s, are about Management’s attitude to […]

Hold on, surely you mean “Motivational”? I hear you say. I was in a discussion on one of the Forums recently and the topic came up of how to motivate […]

In previous articles I have dwelt on problems – now I shall start giving back, with one or two solutions that might be appropriate in some contexts. Much of the way we […]