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Vicious Cycle
At the end of my last post I referred to a vicious cycle of time demands on senior executives. Here’s an attempt at a graphical explanation. The theory is: A high degree of centralization means that...
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Perspective on Employee Investments
One of the most obvious responses to an economic downturn (or even a drop in sales), for an organization, is to weather the storm by cutting costs. In the U.K., a survey found that half of large...
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Even a Broken Watch
In my last post, I wrote about hard-to-measure investments in employees. My concern was that, because of the hard-to-measure characteristic, such investments may get underemphasized. I used training as...
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Spans of Control
A couple thoughts about team size, or span of control: I started a career-resembling job almost four years ago. Since then, I’ve worked on six different teams (For the record, I’ve only changed jobs...
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Collaboration Needs Structure
Josh Belinko and I sat down for our first GTEC (Government Technology Exhibition and Conference) 2013 scheming session this week, and I was pleased to notice an item on the organizer’s draft list of...
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The Management Fog of War
A note: A surprising number of people sent around my Collaboration Needs Structure post. Which A) makes me wish I’d written it more clearly and concisely, and B) somewhat blows me away. I still find it...
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An Argument for Renewal
I’ve written a great deal about employee engagement, management renewal, and future directions for the public service. In many cases, I’m covering ground that has been explored at length by others....
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Entitlement Generation
This post was supposed to be a counterpoint to the last, but I have to study, so just a quick question for today. There are a lot of business writers lambasting Gen Y/Millennials, pointing to our sense...
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An Argument for Renewal, Part II
On February 11, I laid out an argument from pragmatism for workplace renewal: Basically, that any entitlement mentality of new employees is irrelevant, and organizations still need to attract and...
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Open Government
A while back, a handful of public servants, myself included, were at a speaker event about fostering social entrepreneurship in Canada. This topic spanned civil society, business, and government, and...
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