Author: Jim Stroup

Here and there – everywhere

We’ve covered two key elements of the 5-paragraph order used by the modern US military to not only transmit operational instructions… more →

We’ve been arguing that perspective is a principle managerial task. Of course managers need to have perspective themselves – but… more →

When managers have worked hard to develop complex plans, and then even harder to get them approved for execution, they… more →

The previous series looked at the many fallacies in the unfortunate concept of individual leadership in organizations. This current series… more →

We noted last week that organizations cannot and do not come in to existence in order to provide for the… more →

As we prepare to turn to our discussion of what managers really do in organizations, we have found it useful… more →

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been referring to a central military maxim, fundamentally relevant to our purposes as… more →

We mentioned in the last post that our definition of management – the development of organizational objectives and the identification… more →

Surprisingly, it isn’t all that clear what the professional activity is that managers do. Indeed, as he delved in to… more →