Articles about management by Matthew Stibbe
Every manager has one goal: to foster a healthy, prospering work environment that brings employees together to get work done.
Unfortunately, so many managers who have just been promoted or are looking to impress fall short. Why? Because they fall for the many damaging myths about being a manager.
[Read more…] about 10 career-threatening myths about being a managerIt used to be a question for the biggest businesses: what do we outsource? It’s still being asked around board tables, but now the size of company is immaterial. There’s very little in business that can’t be handed off to an outside expert – even outsourcing itself.
[Read more…] about The A-Z of Small Business OutsourcingI had a revelation. Calling our customers ‘users’ dehumanises them. It’s the linguistic equivalent of that office scene from The Apartment, reducing individuals to interchangeable units of interaction. It’s very common in IT to talk about ‘users’ and it’s understandable but I think it’s not helpful. From now on, you’re friends, customers, readers, managers, employees, staff – and above all – people.
Buddhism talks about near enemies and far enemies. Typically, the far enemy is the opposite of some good quality while the near enemy is a kind of counterfeit of the real thing. For example, the far enemy of compassion is cruelty but its near enemy is pity.
[Read more…] about The two enemies: absenteeism and presenteeismEffective managers combine different types of communication, such as email, IM and phone calls, to repeat and reinforce key messages.
Listen very carefully, I shall say this only twice…
[Read more…] about Effective managers say the same thing twiceAn insight into Apple’s Jonathan Ive – Royal College of Art Innovation Night.
A good while ago now, I went to see Jonathan Ive interviewed by Sir Christopher Frayling at the Royal College of Art Innovation Night.
[Read more…] about Reflections on Jonathan Ive and Apple design
