Today is the day that the United States (with some notable exceptions) suggests that the Italian-Americans put their Old World heritage before their country by celebrating a man who may have been Portuguese or Greek, rather than Italy’s Genoa, and refused to believe the place he found on behalf of Castile (part of Spain) was anyplace other than India.
I point this out because in management and scheduling, we often
We’re forgotten but not gone, here. There was a good “once a week” routine, for a while, but nothing lasts forever.
But there’s good news. Read the rest of this entry »
Continuing our series on management styles, we took on technical management last time, leaving us with the other extreme: The business manager, who rarely comes from within the company or even industry, and relies on an MBA to provide understanding and even authority.
What could possibly go wrong?
This week, rather than pound away at playing “good manager/bad manager,” I’d like to return to the idea of how American graduates relate to the corporate world. I received some good input on the subject since posting my original thoughts, and some comments are definitely worth sharing.
Especially interesting is that, outside of technology-driven fields, there’s a different stereotype at work Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re coming in late, last week, I suggested that management is harder than it should be because we consistently fill management positions with people who probably shouldn’t manage.
There are people who understand what their team does well enough to keep tabs and smart enough to manage rather than interrupt. If you have such a manager, ignore this post and do everything it takes to keep that job. The rest of us see our primary facilitator make our jobs more difficult. Read the rest of this entry »