Strategy Is A Pattern In A Stream

We Have Great Managers Who Havent Spent A Day In Management School. Do We Have Great Surgeons That Havent Spent A Day In Surgical School?

Organizations Should Be Built And Managers Should Be Functioning So People Can Be Naturally Empowered. If Someone's Doing Their Job, If Someone's Working In One Of Your Warehouses, Say, They Should Know Their Job Better Than Anybody. They Don't Need To Be 'empowered,' But Encouraged And Left Alone To Be Able To Do What They Know Best.

Five Coordinating Mechanisms Seem To Explain The Fundamental Ways In Which Organizations Coordinate Their Work: Mutual Adjustment, Direct Supervision, Standardization Of Work Processes, Standardization Of Work Outputs, And Standardization Of Worker Skills.

If The Private Sectors Are About Markets And The Public Sectors Are About Governments, Then The Plural Sector Is About Communities.

Management And Leadership Are Not Separate Spheres. The Two Skills Work Together In The Larger Realm Of “communityship.