Paradox of the week – Jim Whitehurst
According to Jim Whitehurst, business has changed. As he writes on the very first page of his 2015 management advice book, The Open Organization: “The classic rules of the game—which used to define who won or lost in business—are being swept away”... read more
Holacracy (Or, Robertson’s rules of order)
Holacracy. Maybe you’ve heard of it…and maybe you haven’t. But if not, according to the inside jacket cover of Brian Robertson’s 2015 book on the subject: “You will”... read more
Happy 4th of July (Out of Office)
Happy Independence Day to you and your families. I'll be back next Friday with a new post. read more
If enacted, “Trumpcare” will fail…for the same reason Obamacare is failing
This week, another exception to my usual blog topics of management and workplace-related issues. For today’s post, an open letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill. In it, I expose a flaw in the GOP’s proposed healthcare bill - a flaw it shares, ironically, with Obamacare... read more
Ignore that résumé?
For those of you familiar with my “Unconventional (mis)management non-wisdom” series of posts, you know that I devote each installment to some tried-and-true management principle, or pearl of management “wisdom.” Take the importance pre-screening applicants based on their résumé, for example – which is the subject of this week’s post... read more
Paradox of the week – Adam Grant
As many of my regular readers are by now well aware, I have a problem with contradictory or paradoxical management advice. But contrary to what you might think, it’s not just that I find this phenomena annoying... read more
Executive Pay
Recently, The New York Times published a list of the 200 best paid CEOs in the U.S. So for this week’s post, a few highlights from their rankings… read more
Happy Memorial Day (Out of office)
Happy Memorial Day to you and your families. I'll be back next Friday with a new post.
read moreAbout the Blogger
David J. Rys is a former pharmaceutical scientist who first became interested in managing, and its malpractice, almost a decade ago, while sitting in a meeting. After an hour of listening to upper management tell him and his co-workers how to do their jobs better, he found himself wondering: why am I listening to you, when you should be listening to me? This blog reflects his efforts to answer this nagging question, as well as explain what “good management” really is, and why good managers are so few and far between ... read more