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> Why do we leave office workers to figure out on their own how to get things done? Because we respect their self-sovereignty? The solution isn't more manageme
by emptysongglass 6y ago
> Why do we leave office workers to figure out on their own how to get things done?
Because we respect their self-sovereignty? The solution isn't more management as he proposes but for the worker to speak up and say what it is they need from others.
Just tell your co-workers that this is how your mind works best and not to disturb if these conditions are in place. Or that they shouldn't expect to be answered immediately if these times, this activity, etc.
- freddie_mercury 6y agoI don't think that's the case and, as is often true with sweeping claims, it doesn't really stand up to a global survey. Do societies that have less respect for self-sovereignty do a better job of getting office workers figure these things out? No, definitely not. I live in an authoritarian country in Asia and I can assure you that isn't the case. So your claim seems to founder immediately when put to the test and there is almost certainly another explanation at work.
- emptysongglass 6y agoYou're agreeing with me. If societies with less respect for the self-sovereignty of their knowledge workers can't improve their productivity the solution indeed isn't more management and never was.
- KSteffensen 6y agoMy interpretation of GPs point is that even in cultures with less respect for self-sovereignty that have more management in general this particular brand of management is not happening and that is why the problems are the same in both settings.
- meheleventyone 6y agoI doubt it respects self-sovereignty anymore than holocracy managed to. Instead expectations are implicit and participants learn about them or fail. Going against the grain in that sort of environment will be seen negatively.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoI believe the technical term is 'alienation' ?