Weak skills hamper the growth of businesses; more evidence accumulates as to the economic impact of strong management.
Yet still, in the strange world of politics and formal economics, people management is regarded as junior to data analysis. We really do live in a world run by bean-counters.
One often comes across the same bizarre split when working at a corporation. The big decisions are made on the basis of accounting cost, but from time to time a token gesture is made towards ‘engagement’ with an away-day or a little bit of training. The two worlds are never joined up – except in the very best-run companies, who cheerfully ignore economic orthodoxy and the damaging business model that it has produced.
The economic impact of strong management is colossal, something the dismal science continues to ignore.
From New Normal, Radical Shift:
“According to the orthodox views of neo-liberalism and Marxism, which still dominate popular prejudices in the boardroom and on the picket line, enterprises such as Mondragon, Whole Foods, Nationwide Building Society, Semler, Google, WL Gore & Associates ought to be commercial failures. The fact that these organisations are not only successful, but exceptionally successful and resilient, tells us that something is fundamentally wrong about the dominant economic and political philosophies that still hold too much sway. The economic benefits of cooperation and equality of status are beginning to be seen, not in experimental communes, but in some of the most successful corporations in the world.”
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