Every few months someone else does a "Sam Altman" and announces that AI will make agencies obsolete. The case always sounds the same. AI can research faster. AI
Feel like your business is borderline crazy, with people flying back and forth, priorities changing, work never done well enough, and clients never happy enough?
And do you, at the
Leaders, executives, and managers can face the new normal with confidence knowing that there’s a new way for teams to work more productively. It’s called “pods” and it
Peter Drucker is famous for pointing out how much better managers could manage if they only used numbers. His message to you: “…if you can’t measure it, you can’
A former RAND researcher shines light on the counter-intuitive yet proven path to being a great manager.
Welcome to the Unmanaging Revolution
In the bustling landscape of contemporary workplaces, where
Software Agile’s Manifesto famously dismissed the need for intermediaries, espousing “Individuals and Interactions” and “Client Communication.” over the use of managers, contracts and tools. So I’ve always been
What Agile taught us about the effective leadership of knowledge-worker organizations
The Manifesto for Humanist Agile Organization and Culture
We believe there is a better way to manage. It requires
Adapted from the original article published in MediaPost Agency Daily here on Dec 17, 2017, How Good (Or Not) Are Your Agency Managers?
Knowledgeworker organizations have a lot in common
Parents with college-age or post-college kids are all asking a version of the same question these days. It isn’t “What should my kid major in?” anymore. It’s something
Lazy gets a bad rap. Managing and managers can be costly to your organization’s productivity (listen to episode 2.1, The Natural Tax of Managing) and in fact less
Can you be a better manager by stepping back and letting teams manage themselves? As strange as this may sound, the answer is yes. Often managers stop all over the
The answer is a pretty-much unqualified “yes.” Does it need to be that way? Of course not, but it is not easy. Meetings were horrible prior to 2020, and though
