Posts tagged with "Smart working"

"Our theories and ideas have done much to strengthen the management practices that we are now so loudly condeming" Sumatra Ghoshal, 2005 in Academy of Management Learning, vol 4, no 1.

This post is a reflection on Ghoshal's observations on "the pretence of knowledge" and the scientific approach to management. I have been quiet on the blog writing front for about three months. This was in part because I needed to get my head down and get outstanding tasks done. There was something else though: a gnawing feeling that I am hanging back from saying something that has been on my mind for a long time. So here it is.

Smart working behaviours from people with agile minds, and who work with adaptive systems, enable customer-focused performance. This includes innovating, sensing, adapting, coordinating, collaborating, integrating and learning.