Tag: management

22
Jun

The importance of servant leadership

Published by adil in Entrepreneurship Reply

The importance of servant leadership

Sometimes the concept of servant leadership doesn’t get enough attention. When it does, most people understand the buzz wordiness of it but not its actual meaning and somehow like it to the “Are you a maker or a manager?” question. The key to fully understanding servant leadership is captured in its subtlety. A lot of people who don’t appreciate the human side of life may think it’s just another “touchy-feely” concept that doesn’t mean anything. → Read More

7
Jun

Parts of Management suck

Published by adil in Entrepreneurship Reply

Sequential career "silo" approach

Management – or at least the path to management – is a funny thing. Traditionally, the path to career advancement has meant that people start out as individual contributors. There’s only so far they can advance as “doers”, so they strive to move up the ranks by becoming managers. Those who are upwardly mobile work hard to be recognized as among the few smart contributors who get chosen to move into management. So the typical → Read More

23
May

The importance of employee recognition

Published by adil in Entrepreneurship Reply

I think employee recognition is an area that’s grossly undervalued, both by managers and by people in general – especially when it comes to knowledge workers. Knowledge workers get paid reasonably well. If not, they know they can go somewhere else and make good money. I find that engineers, as a rule, are very good at crafting a world that works for themselves. Maybe because it’s easy to do. But crafting a world that works → Read More

24
Feb

Management by walking around

Published by adil in Agile, Productivity 8 comments

Easily, one of the most fun parts of my job is management by walking around (MBWA).  It’s not just fun, but its also quite effective as a tool in leading organizations.  My experience, however, is that its an underutilized tactic.  And for those of us who do it, its one of the easiest things to ‘bump off the schedule’ for something seemingly more important. A brief history “Management by Wandering Around” is a term that was → Read More