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Bookmap: The Halo Effect… and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Phil Rozenzweig’s book impressed when I first read it by explaining in straightforward terms why “Five Steps…” and “Seven Habits…” type books aren’t enough to ensure success in different contexts. The explanation of the dangers of pseudoscientific approaches to studying performance is recommended to anyone working in organisational design. I also feel all business management [...]
Design by committee
Why hire someone with expertise, then insist on giving them your ill-informed “feedback”? Well you’ve got to “add value” somehow… If you’ve ever found yourself on the other side of the table to the “resource”, you might find this uncomfortable viewing…
How do you motivate people?
The Gurteen Knowledge-Log is a great source of advice for managers. A recent post about motivation caught my eye: “I had a conversation recently when I was in Indonesia – I don’t recall whom it was with but the subject turned to motivation and the person I was talking to started to talk about the [...]
The art of sabotage
Euan Semple’s blog recently featured some advice on how to sabotage a workplace. Recently presented at an Enterprise 2.0 conference, these points were taken from a recently declassified US Office of Strategic Services (the forerunner of the CIA) publication entitled “Simple Sabotage Field Manual“: Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be [...]
The Halo Effect – are you deluded?
The Halo Effect is a form of cognitive bias which causes us to ascribe positive traits to people we perceive as successful and negative traits to those we don’t. It is also the title of a business book written by Phil Rosenzweig, professor at IMD, which looks at the facts behind some of the most [...]
Book Review: “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”
My colleague Tom is slightly cynical about the vogue for storytelling in business, mainly due to the proliferation of abstract cuddly animal stories which avoid mentioning business. He’s even gone as far as outlining a menu based on the animals involved. While this book is subtitled “A Leadership Fable”, I can reassure you – before [...]
Experiencing Scrum
“Oh, dinosaurs!” I should’ve got to grips with Quentin Blake’s book earlier – there’s a whole section on drawing dogs. I can’t imagine Hugh MacLeod is quaking in his boots. Across town to Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Centre on Wednesday night for April’s SPA CAM meeting. This month’s session was a workshop based around Scrum. If [...]
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