Delegate or dump? Sometimes its hard to distinguish the two. Often managers delegate the work they like the least as opposed to strategically assigning it. In doing so, they’ve dumped the problems on others and walked away – its human nature after all, to avoid doing things we dislike. But risks exist with simply passing [...]
When I say shades of grey, I’m focused on employee experience and expertise; often acquired after years of work, hence the shades of grey. I first came to the Bay Area right at the height of the dot com boom and stayed to experience most of the bust. One thing that struck me, at the [...]
Project management is a discipline that offers a lot of value outside of managing “projects”. Many managers fail to see its advantages, claiming “I don’t have a project, I manage a department and its not finite”, or “project management is all about process and its too time consuming and resource intensive”.
To the first point, I [...]
Many managers I’ve worked with reside at either end of the spectrum: They are either hands-off or the micromanager. The best managers I know understand that they cannot be locked into a single position, and rather move up and down the scale as the situation requires. They know for example, that when a team is [...]
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