Jurgen Appelo Guest Post by Jurgen Appelo: I once read that “managing is harder than programming, because making people do what is needed is far more difficult than making computers do what is needed”. (Don’t flame me if you don’t agree. I’m quoting from an unknown source here.) This quote kept running through my mind [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Corporate Culture (or not)'
Guest Post: Where there’s people, there’s problems
March 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · Agile Practices, Corporate Culture (or not), Guest Posts
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What United Airlines could learn from JAL
December 3rd, 2008 · 13 Comments · Corporate Culture (or not), News and Information
Haruka Nishimatsu There was an amazing interview on CNN recently with Haruka Nishimatsu, the CEO of JAL, Japan Airlines. The interview could have been a primer on how to be an ethical CEO who cares about his people and his company more than he cares about his own compensation. According to the report, when JAL [...]
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Conformity, innovation, and progress
December 2nd, 2008 · 37 Comments · Agile Practices, Corporate Culture (or not)
In the 1950′s, Solomon Asch, conducted a series of experiments designed to understand the phenomenon we know as conformity. In his experiments, a group of participants were seated around a table and asked to examine a series of vertical lines. They were then asked to tell the group which vertical line, A, B, or C, [...]
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Act like a startup
November 25th, 2008 · 20 Comments · Corporate Culture (or not)
When you think about startup companies what comes to mind? Vision, focused vision. Energy, lots of energy. Small teams. No rules. The Beginner’s Mind. The Art of the Possible. Now, think about the huge, established, multinationals. What images do they conjure up? Bureaucracy. Heavy process. Big teams. Tried and true. Conservative. Dull. Perhaps you came [...]
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