PSM #12: People - Podcast Notes
Podcast notes for PSM 12: People follows.
PSM People
- A couple of paradygm shifts
- People put themselves first, their families second, and their job third.
- People do not come to work to fail, no they come to succeed.
- Organizations
- People and the most valuable asset.
- People are what gets the job done.
- Teams are the most effective organization
- self-directed
- self-organizing
- internally motivated
- self policing
- synergistic
- usually more correct
- I don’t want 10 people that replicate me
- teams are self defining
- May visit team construction later
- Management role in an organization: empowerment
- The pyramid is ineffective
- The upside down pyramid
- Manager at bttom, supporting
- Manager facilitates
- Manager removes obstacles
- Manager guides
- Manager provides resources
Craig @ April 5, 2006