The Entrepreneur: A person who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable new product or service. The Intrapreneur: An employee who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable new product or service. Spot the difference? Is this the same job? There is only a vowel between them after all […]
Pointless Conversations
Management meetings Do you ever lose the will to live in management meetings? Sometimes they are so bad I want to scoop out my eyeballs with a tea-spoon. I’d do anything to get out of the conversation. I hate futile meetings that are a waste of everybody’s time — usually highly paid people’s time. Here […]
Scapegoating and the Black Magic of Work Creation
An imaginary tale… Picture a high pressure environment. Resources are stretched and the work keeps on coming. Jobs are routinely prioritised so that staff can focus on what is important. That isn’t an uncommon scenario, maybe it is ringing bells, so let me make it a little more dramatic by upping the stakes. Imagine it was […]
The World’s Most Useless Document
The org chart When you join a new business the people in H.R. will give you something like this: As good corporate citizens we all seize this as one of the most important pieces of paper we will be given. It tells us how the concern works. It is critical information, it tells us how […]
Management Cardboard
Management control Rather longer ago than I care to admit, I worked for an FMCG company. I worked in R&D, and developed new frozen food products for a living. There were two things we worried about: The contents – the product that customers pay for, the fish finger or ice cream. The container – the […]
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