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27 Oct 2023
While the Cat’s away: What happens when the managers leave
What would happen if we send all of the managers away for a day…or more? This is one of the many counter-intuitive yet enlightening topics that are part of AgencyAgile’s leadership workshops, and also part of Jack’s new book, Unmanaged, Master the Magic of Creating Empowered and Happy Organizations, launching November 1st on Amazon. The [...]
18 Oct 2023
The Making of Unmanaged, the Book.
You know less about managing than you think. These misperceptions and fallacies include theidea that managing creates productivity, that managers can solve everything, that more managing equals better managing, and that workers cannot work without being managed. These mistaken notions find their origins in the Industrial Revolution. Though they were the best we could do then, they are woefully inadequate, and [...]
20 Jun 2022
I Hate Your Stupid Meeting
Many meetings are like unpleasant dinner guests who have come uninvited. They intrude on your productive time, drone on with unnecessary conversation, and you can’t wait for them to leave. Does that mean useful, effective meetings are a hopeless cause? Of course not! But the techniques you can use to [...]
7 Jun 2022
Your Meeting Sucks
Do your Meetings Suck? 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 we are in a different place now, with better tools and some new attitudes, finding your way to better [...]
22 Mar 2022
King Kong, please sit down and wait your turn
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 landscape like monsters in a 1950’s B-movie. Small teams actually work better when there is less management over them, and [...]
5 Jan 2022
The manager of the future is chill
Can a manager manage better by stepping back and letting teams manage themselves? As strange as this may sound, the answer is yes. Small teams work better when there is less management over them, and this has as much to do with the way ordinary people interact as it does [...]
21 Sept 2020
The Art of the Lazy Manager
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 managing can be better! Can you be a better manager by being a lazy manager? At the core of our ridiculously successful AgencyAgile techniques [...]
20 Aug 2020
6 and 8, The Dark Side of Estimates
Peter Drucker is famous for pointing out how much better managers could manage if they only used numbers. His message: “…if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” Managing is the business of numbers…or is it? Certainly, Frederick Taylor, the inventor of Scientific Management felt that way. What neither of them [...]
3 Aug 2020
Theory X and Theory Y Management
In the 1950s, a distinction was made between the underlying beliefs about workers – Theory X and Theory Y. Depending on which you believe, it would influence your behavior as a manager, causing you to either be more controlling or more empowering. Theory X was a representation of the assumptions [...]
15 Jul 2020
The Birth of Bad Managing
Just over 100 years ago, our culture’s ideas of what “managing” meant changed dramatically. In the late 1800’s, after millennia of craftsman-type commerce – a global network of artisans who did things with simple tools – gave way to increasingly complex automated and powered machines that could reliably replicate actions [...]
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