Cute Management Tricks - Avoiding the Real Issues
- Topics:
- Business Ethics
- Tags:
- Innovation,
- Leadership,
- Management,
- Ravenwerks,
- Strategy
- Source:
- Ravenwerks
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Overview: Many times, managers read a book or go to a seminar and get excited about what seems to be a cure for all of their problems. They go back to their companies and apply what they have learned before understanding the issue and asking the right questions of the right people. Managers entering a new company or department, or students studying management for the first time need to be especially careful of this. It's very easy (and fun!) to see a situation that has worked for someone else and immediately go apply it. It makes the upper management think a person is full of fresh ideas and that he will get results. The article explains how to resolve the issue depends a great deal on where a person is sitting. It included suggestions for employees and managers to get the details of the solution from employees and manager perspective read the article. The wrong management style or philosophy, or the right program applied at the wrong time for the wrong reasons, can be a very bad thing. It can exacerbate existing problems, and create new ones, one should be cautious about it. It is a great paradox that there are innumerable obstacles to innovation in the current corporate environment. It is also absolutely essential to the survival, growth and prosperity of any company to have some means to manage innovation. Competition, mistrust, and scarcity of time, money and other resources make it very difficult to innovate. These same reasons make it innovation imperative. There are a number of obstacles to realizing and profiting from innovation to the fullest. In order to capitalize on the innovative capacities within the company, one have to provide some basic elements that foster it in the organization. The way one provide these elements can be formal or informal, and adapted to the size and nature of the company, but they must be present in some form to truly encourage and leverage innovation. By creating common goals, an atmosphere of collaboration, and a compensation system that recognizes and rewards innovation, your company can mitigate the risks and maximize the rewards of innovations from within the ranks. It states that leader have to follow few principles and provide a safe environment as innovation includes risk.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
