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Sir Alex Ferguson’s slow management
As I wrote last time, the recent announcement of the retirement of Alex Ferguson, Manchester United’s legendary manager, generated an outpouring of articles in the British press. Of course, much of what I saw in the newspapers and magazines focused on the man’s remarkable record of success in leading his side to the peaks of British and European football glory. More interesting to me, though, was discovering aspects of his personality and management philosophy that I had not seen before, characteristics that led me to compare him to another sports legend, former basketball coach Phil Jackson. Why did my recent reading about Alex Ferguson make me think of Jackson? On … Continue reading
When do work-from-home arrangements make good sense?
As promised, I return here to another debate that continues in the current press and on the Internet. Several weeks ago, I wrote that I would come back to this issue after gleaning some more insight from online forums, and from my colleagues and friends. If the discussion of work-from-home continues, it is certainly in part because of the depth of emotion it seems to generate from both “camps”, and also because there are no clear answers. As I read, researched and questioned those around me, I often had the sense that each compelling argument on one side had an equally compelling counter-argument on the other. By way of reminder, … Continue reading
Cleaning up some “loose ends”
This week and next, I will “close” on two subjects I have recently promised to return to. Today, I continue a bit more on an item that simply won’t go away: reactions to Margaret Thatcher’s death. Next week, I will return briefly to the debate about working from home, and to the outpouring of opinion around Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to require office presence for all employees. On Wednesday, I was invited to lunch at L’Oreal headquarters in Paris with three prominent members of the company’s human resource group. One of them was English, one Italian, and one Croatian. We talked of storytelling, leadership development, communication, and possibilities for … Continue reading
