Erika Funny

The style of management can either make or break a company’s morale.

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I found it intriguing how he likened our human behavior to that of bees in a hive. Part of me resonates with his perspective. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in improving their management style or business

Key takeaways

“The people you hire to follow instructions are rarely the people who will help you build something of innovation and substance.”

💡A great example of this similar process is Apple. The chip design for your phone and other products is designed here in California, and when they are ready to be mass produced, they are sent to Taiwan for mass production

A job that is repetitive, easily measured, and consistent lends itself to industrialization. The pressure is on to make it cheap.

💡I think this is a very fascinating perspective in today’s world. We have recently had a big jump in A.I., and I can think of many jobs that can be easily industrialized because they can be easily measured and consistent. This might be a big change for countless people because it will put people in a weird spot for a while where some of us won’t know what to do for a living. I believe it also presents an opportunity for heightened creativity.

If this bus isn’t going where you want to go, today is a great time to get off.

💭When I read this quote, it reminded me of a co-worker. He would always say, “ My Bus is here “. The first time I heard him say this, I didn’t understand. He later explained to me, he meant it was time to go home and was not actually waiting for a bus to go home, I sense that this would be something he might say.

At scale, organizations pay less attention to soft skills when hiring because we’ve persuaded ourselves that vocational skills are impersonal and easier to measure. If it’s easier to test for, it seems more important when selecting our team.

💡The only addition I would make to this statement is that, if you find yourself in a hiring position, it would be beneficial to devise a method for assessing soft skills. The last thing you’d want is to end up micromanaging your employees every minute of the day.

Quotes

Management runs a race to the bottom; leadership offers a chance to run for the top.

The manager seeks compliance. A manager makes a profit delivering industrial progress and productivity, which is done by doing what we did yesterday a little faster and a little cheaper.

The leader seeks to create the conditions for people to make a change happen.

create value, cause change, and make a difference by leading with humans instead of treating them as cogs in a soulless machine.

significant organization offers change, possibility, and responsibility. It creates the conditions for humans to engage without the traditional dominance roles of industrial management.

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Book Review 3 Stars