let's (not) get rid of all the managers!

Julia WesterImprovement Coach @ LeanKitBlog: Everydaykanban.comTwitter: @everydaykanban

Let’s (not) get rid of all the managers!

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Managers, VPS, executives… they all need to go. Here’s how one company reorganized itself for maximum employee satisfaction.

Want Happier Employees? Get Rid of the Bosses

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What about me?

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1850s

1930s

Now

Birth of Scientific Management

Motivation becomes a focus

Major shift to agency

Eras of management

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It’s a system problem, not a people problem

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7 tips to being a manager

your team canlove

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Ignore position, be part of the team

#1

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Treat people like people, not servers#2

Resources

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Care about, listen to team members#3

@everydaykanban Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial Logic, @joshuakerievsky

PutCognitive

Safety First

#4

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Software makers from poor working conditions, including hostile relationships, death marches, burnout, hazardous software, insufficient testing infrastructure, poor lighting, uncomfortable seating, excessive work hours and insufficient exercise.

Software managers from the stress and consequences of not delivering, insufficient insight into progress, poor planning and sudden surprises.

Protects people:

Joshua Kerievsky, Industrial Logic, @joshuakerievsky

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Manage by intent, not control#5

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Understand the effects of metrics#6

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This isn’t going to work out the way

you hope it will

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Provide coaching

advice along with a small

set of balanced metrics

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Be your team’s biggest fan#7

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Ignore positional power

Say people, not resources

Get to know the team

Put cognitive safety first

Manage by intent, not control

Properly wield metrics

Be your team’s biggest fan

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Peter Drucker

“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make

people capable of joint performance, to make their

strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant”

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