Re:The Command-And-Control Mindset Is Killing Companies
by sgt101 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @02:45PM
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The engagement meme is a nightmare.
1) Measure engagement - surveys, more surveys. Targets for managers of the surveyed, dismissal, removal of bonus. Survey manipulated, rendered political tool. Lieing all round. Disaster.
2) Targeting of dissent. "we've finished debating, now we're executing" "boss, there's a brick wall" "you're fired" "oh" "bang" "oh". Anyone who disagrees or complains about some aspect of central function in anyway it immediately branded disengaged and targetted for removal.
Here's a rule. No one can practices management consulting unless they have worked at a fortune 500 for 30 years.
Here's another one. No one can have a chair at a business school unless they've worked in the C suite of a fortune 500 for 30 years.
1) Measure engagement - surveys, more surveys. Targets for managers of the surveyed, dismissal, removal of bonus. Survey manipulated, rendered political tool. Lieing all round. Disaster.
2) Targeting of dissent. "we've finished debating, now we're executing" "boss, there's a brick wall" "you're fired" "oh" "bang" "oh". Anyone who disagrees or complains about some aspect of central function in anyway it immediately branded disengaged and targetted for removal.
Here's a rule. No one can practices management consulting unless they have worked at a fortune 500 for 30 years.
Here's another one. No one can have a chair at a business school unless they've worked in the C suite of a fortune 500 for 30 years.
This would cut this rubbish right out.