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Managers Should Not Be Coaching Developers

Should hospital directors be coaching doctors and nurses? Should movie producers be coaching actors and animators? Should Rupert Murdoch ...

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Translating How to Change the World

My new little book How to Change the World is being translated into Japanese and French, and a Chinese version is expected too. But I wan...

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Egocentric Leadership

I just finished reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and I didn’t like it. Yes, the message about team formation was quite good, and...

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How Can We Help Melly Shum?

In 1990 a big photo by an artist named Ken Lum was placed in Witte de With, a street in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The title of the work...

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Management 3.0 Is a Way of Work

Is it a method? Is it a framework? No, it’s… what actually? In two previous posts I claimed that Management 1.0 is doing the wrong th...

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Management 2.0 Is the Right Thing Done Wrong

I’ve been complaining about management 1.0, a style of management that we still see all around us. It assumes that an organization can ...

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Management 1.0 Is Still All Around Us

Some people told me that the advice I give in my courses is simply common sense management. I agree. Unfortunately, common sense managers...

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