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> companies are a collection of people Peter Drucker was on top of this. It's so obvious yet so often forgotten (ignored?). An organization is a group of peopl
by heymijo 5y ago
> companies are a collection of people
Peter Drucker was on top of this. It's so obvious yet so often forgotten (ignored?). An organization is a group of people.
Jumping back to systems thinking. People can respond a number of ways in organizations. Enter 'policy refusal' (see Donella Meadows' systems literature for more). Executive wants A to happen. A is not in employees' best interest. Employees ignore, delay, obfuscate, outright refuse, or actively undermine A.
People are very good at policy refusal. Executives are good at not knowing its happening.
- shoto_io 5y agoWhat’s your favorite resource on Drucker? I love re-reading his book “The Effective Executive”.
- heymijo 5y agoHis 1973 tome Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, The Essential Drucker, and Managing for Results are three I find myself opening regularly. The Effective Executive is great as well. It's hard to narrow down because he was such a prolific writer. Recommendations are also hard because you've got to meet the reader where they are. I picked up and put down Drucker early in my career. Years later, the same pages burst with insight when I read them.
- tomasdore 5y ago"You've got to meet the reader where they are....Years later, the same pages burst with insight when I read them. " - Thanks for this, I find it is a great way of phrasing it, and gets to the heart of much about both education and communication.