Recently I coded a interview with a young programmer for Complexity o Information Processing. This should give a good idea of where someone sits on Jaques’s charts, to be checked against the actual work peformance of the person. I am qualified (but not certified) to determine Strata 1-3, with a possible on 4. Unfortunately, almost everyone that I have coded …
War and Peace and Organizations
It’s interesting to read Tolstoy on organizations. I’ve not gotten this far in War and Peace yet but I saw this mentioned in Senge’s The Fifth Discipline. Tolstoy has a amazing insight into things: you have to regret the loss of him leaving his art later in life.
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Project Management vs. Getting Something Done
When Project Management goes sour, it does so because it becomes more about completing the items on the list rather than accomplishing the end goal. Software engineers have made this such a regular lament that you have to believe it has entered into folklore as a song cycle.
Right Fitting Work Builds Trust, Bad Fitting Work Makes Distrust
If you underemploy people as a society, you destroy social trust. Social trust increases agility because it reduces transaction costs and increases sharing of knowledge. Proper employmet builds trust. If you want a trust-filled company, then you must ensure that people have roles that fit their size. UPDATE 2005-March-04 If you have someone in a role that is too small …
Mine the Lower Ranks Now to Recruit Executives for the Impending Boomer Retirement Disaster
Baby boomer are about to retire, and when they do, will your management team still be there? Most of us have heard about the impending crises in Social Security and Medicare as the massive numbers of baby-boomers retire en masse over the next few years. We have begun to argue and debate this problem, both in public forums and in …
Rapid Talent Pool Evaluation for Merger and Acquisitions Using Requisite Organization
A new periodic feature. I wrote the following for another website. It describes the success that Glenn Mehltretter of PeopleFit has had in using Requiste Organization informed practices to create a better merger of two companies.
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