Der Blog handelte von den Auswüchsen "modernen" Managements und was man dagegen unternehmen kann.
Im Schlusswort heisst es sehr treffend:
My last word is this: the very best leadership, I am convinced, is engaging in as few “managerial” activities as possible. If you must do something, encourage and train your staff, talk with customers, monitor quality and spend as much time as you can with “non-managerial” actions like inventing new products and services and improving old ones.
Management has become a self-replicating and self-justifying process we would be better off without. People do managerial things, not because they are useful or even necessary, but because that is what they think managers are expected to do. When corporations cut payrolls to save money, they start at the bottom. That’s wrong. Begin at the top, where there are now large numbers of expensive people doing nothing useful or important to the real business, just managerial “stuff” that no one would notice missing if it went away.
Business schools need a belief in the vital importance of management to justify their own existence, so it’s no wonder they teach nothing else — although even their own data shows nearly all “managerial” activities like mergers, marketing initiatives and fancy financial engineering destroy value on a massive scale. Management today is more of a religion, based on unquestioning belief in semi-sacred texts and dead prophets, than a useful and practical way of spending time.
I think the Tao Te Ching had it right: “Doing nothing, everything gets done.” My ideal for each of you, as a manager and a leader, is that you never waste your time and talent again on any conventional “management” tasks.
