HERDING CATS – FROM CONFLICT TO COLLABORATION
Warren Bennis in his book of the same title, claims that managing people is like herding cats. Of course, as Bennis points out, Cats won’t allow themselves to be herded – they can however, be persuaded, influenced and led toward a common purpose. The key message here is that management is becoming less relevant in […]
Mary Parker Follett – Pioneer of Modern Management and Negotiation theory
Mary Parker Follett was referred to by Peter Drucker as the prophet of management – Follett viewed bureaucratic organisations with their hierarchical forms as basically being unfit for purpose and preferred the concepts of network organisational forms, collaboration, and integrative bargaining – essentially the idea of people working together to achieve more than they could […]