Busting management myths I love social psychology, it fascinates me. I particularly like experiments. It is one thing to put forward a theory about why people behave the way that they do; it is another thing altogether to prove it with some data. Let me give you an example, how should you set up an office? […]
Archives for December 2016
A World Without Objectives
Objectives: could we manage without them? How would we cope? The guys in H.R. would throw up their hands in horror. We couldn’t rate our staff. Pay for performance would flounder. Annual appraisals would become a farce. We wouldn’t know what we were doing. How could we manage our businesses? But how do we manage with objectives? They just get […]