Mathemagenic

Martin Dugage:

From Peter Drucker:

Ninety percent of what we call 'management' consists of making it difficult for people to get things done

Morning teaser for waking up brains: what are those ninety percent?

Some points from my list (not necessary the most severe ones, but those I care about most):

• Thinking in terms of interventions, not personal productivity (re: personal knowledge management)
• Thinking in terms of formal organisational structures, not social networks and communities
• Measuring what could be measured, not what matters (re: invisible)
• Holding controls instead of giving responsibility to people (re: attitude change)
• Managing weaknesses, not strengths (re: strengths finding)
• Fitting businesses around market changes and equipment life-cycles while forgetting about natural rhythms of people and fun of flow (re: work-life balance)
• Relying on codified knowledge and pushing codification
• Managing conveyor belts, not social ecosystems (re: middlespace)
• Lack of reflection and skills to facilitate reflection of others
• ???

See also: leadership as releasing energy of others