At its heart, project management is about getting things done. For as long as people have lived in groups, they have needed to work together to get things done. People…
Category: <span>management techniques</span>
I’ve been slow to post a note here about my latest Chronicle Vitae article, but better late than never: my latest article is up! It is about transparency in management:…
I wrote recently about how there is no such thing as “one size fits all” management advice. I was reminded of that again recently when I was catching up on…
I really enjoyed When G.M. Was Google, a New Yorker article about Google, GM, and management books by Nicholas Lemann. It is worth reading for the survey of management books…
One of my favorite parts of managing people is helping them grow their skills and get even better at their jobs. I think a lot of managers have a limited view of…
I’ve been making vague promises to write about project management techniques I learned in the Agile software development world that I think would translate well to science. This post is…
I came across a post yesterday that really made me think. Giles Bowkett posted a take-down of scrum (a popular form of agile software development) and in fact of agile…
We all know micromanagement is bad. It leads to a loss of autonomy, which decreases motivation, which in turn decreases productivity. (The research on this is summarized in Daniel Pink’s…