Baby Management
posted by admin at 4:47 pmSo, my wife just had a baby. One of the aspects of becoming a new parent that I’ve found interesting is all the conflicting advice we’ve been getting. I joked with my wife that if we read enough books, we’d eventually find one that declared, “Always, always, always shake a baby”. (For the record, do not do that). In order to navigate all the conflicting advice, we’ve decided to just agree to which strategies to employ and not change strategies until we find that something isn’t working. I think there is something in that for leadership. My partners and I travel all over the country and we see many different management styles, strategies and theories in action. Above the success of any specific approach in a specific circumstance, our real interest lies in whether or not leaders are able to learn with regards to how they manage. Certainly no leader has ever achieved everything they ever aimed for. What do you do when that happens? Do you learn from what doesn’t work?
