by Esther Derby | Feb 10, 2009 | Leadership & Management, Musings
From Bob Sutton’s Work Matters blog:15 THINGS I (Bob Sutton) BELIEVE1. Sometimes the best management is no management at all — first do no harm!2. Indifference is as important as passion.3. In organizational life, you can have influence over others or you...
by Esther Derby | Jan 14, 2009 | Leadership & Management
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know how I feel about compensation systems that claim to motivate better performance with differential pay. For example, A Compensation Story in 2006, It’s What We Know That Ain’t So and Pay for...
by Esther Derby | Mar 21, 2007 | Leadership & Management
Last week, I wrote a post about decisions that look only at easy-to-count costs and ignore hard-to-count benefits.Here’s one method for estimating hard-to-count benefits, subjective impact analysis:1. Identify the proposed course of action.2. Determine what’s...
by Esther Derby | Sep 13, 2006 | The Rest
Mike Kelly has a nice post on diluting the power of appreciation. My experience is that genuine appreciations can transform many situations. A couple of years ago I led a year-long project with a distributed team–no two members were in the same timezone....
by Esther Derby | May 29, 2005 | The Rest
When companies adopt Agile methods, management roles shift. Team manages their own work and managers focus on system problems. The manager’s stance toward the team moves to facilitative leadership and away from hierarchical leadership. For managers who have been...
