Management Getting Away With It

Too often we are hearing about organisations making staffing cuts. Most distressingly, managers who are either inept, untrained or inexperienced are staying in roles that they are not suited for and people with potential and energy are being let go. Senior Management are to blame for not recognising ineptitude and are also guilty of not knowing enough about their staff who are actually delivering the work necessary to keep an organisation functioning. Worst of all 2nd and 3rd rounds or redundancies are fatal. If you must do it, do it once, deep, and then carry on. Businesses in a deep recession must change. If you think that management techniques you learnt 20 years ago will help you, you are mistaken. We are in unchartered territory, so we need to learn and try new ideas. The positive spin is that you have absolutely nothing to lose by trying new ideas. The only thing we have to be afraid of...