This is a posting in The Fish Pond Metaphor series by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar As projects start and end within organizations the demand for employees fluctuates. It seems that in certain times the workforce is just too small to handle all tasks, and in slow times many employees are doing nothing. With …
This is really my favorite Project Management question to which I don’t have a real answer: are our industry’s best practices really that, or do we merely say they are because as a PM we are expected to say so? You know that when you fall, you experience pain. You have felt that as a …
by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In this posting we will introduce a view on organizational structures using The Fish Pond. It provides an alternative perspective in answering the question whether we should have flat organizations, pyramidal organizations or something in between. We will use the process of pond stratification as illustration.
The world is changing dramatically, fast and beyond everything we have seen. Globalization and technology have introduced more diversity, more dynamics and more interdependencies than ever before. This provides project management, and management in general, with a challenge. How to survive in this environment? Together with dr Ali Anani, I am taking on this challenge …
Earlier this month Ted.com published a presentation by Howard Rheingold called “Way-New Collaboration“. He talks about how the old paradigm of command-control is being replaced by Way-New Collaboration. He connects his story with social dilemma’s like Prisoners Dilemma and Tragedy of the Commons. This is the best presentation I’ve seen that is telling the story …