I’m glad we’re on the same page

In essence it should be a horses for courses deal contingent on the industry. Every industry is different and requires a unique set of tools to succeed. The question is, what tools do you use?

Though, in the long run, it doesn’t also help with consistency.

In some settings, a business needs to increase efficiency by specifying every little details and action involved in its product or service – this is especially so in manufacturing.

Every human being has the potential to be incredibly creative. Unfortunately though, not every role has much scope for it. If we’re still talking ‘factory settings’ – we need to identify what areas of management, and what management styles conflict with the basic human need to express one’s self.

It’s regrettable; that we can’t all be advertising executives, artists, well known architects or have other truly creative roles.

What is important is that people are given both the ability to contribute to their environment and merit derived from that contribution. The antithesis of this, and the most common practice; is to placate people with trinkets in the hope to inspire a momentary high – and to do so repetitively.

$ is rarely a great long term motivator. It’s the ability of the company to delve deeper into people’s values to guage what they believe in is what will motivate people to work towards the organisational goals. For example, an organisation may subsidise a high performing team’s childcare costs for parents, or gift free gym membership, or donate a X amount of dollars towards a chosen charity a team chooses or whatever the team deems important to them.

Merits should be rewarded when objectives are met. In the IT industry especially on the web, skills are as important as experience. I know of teenage coders who do great work yet they need to be managed. At the end of the day, teenagers are teenagers so let them be teenagers so lines have to drawn and rules are to be agreed.

What do you think about managing people by ojectives? As long as goals are met within ethical guidelines, should managers care how objectives are met? It is interesting how innovation can be thwarted due to autocracy.

Let live and learn.

More random thoughts, I hope it makes sense