Modern work

In a discussion about managing constant change two interesting observations were made.

1: "Most jobs are increasingly a series of projects". This is certainly true of mine and seemed to ring a bell with all the other senior managers gathered. So when did that happen and why? And while we're all diverted on projects, who's running things?

2: When discussing "change" with teams, it sounds like an admonition (as in "Change or Die!"). Is there a less pejorative word? Progress? Improvement? Future? Forward? They all sound like doublespeak.

Comments

[Euan Semple]

I remember, many moons ago, in my first real management job realizing that we, the managers, had spent so much time disappearing into rooms, planning the future or whatever, that our department had pretty much been running itself for six months.

That lesson informs much my thinking on management to this day!

:-)