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An Eternal Argument: Can a Non-Expert manage Experts?
Can you put a non-engineer to lead an IT development team? How effective would be a financial product development team when managed by someone who has no previous experience with financial systems?...
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When to delegate and when to do it yourself
Delegation is such an integrative part of Management that it seems everything has already been said about it. We all understand its benefits for grooming potential Leads and know how to redistribute...
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When it is right to throw money at the problem
We all are familiar with situations when decision-makers keep throwing money at the problem instead of trying a structural solution that could potentially be much more beneficial to the system. The...
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More on Delegation: Micro-management and “Hands-On” Management Style
After talking to people about my post on Delegation I decided to expand the discussion to other related issues in Management that everybody knows about, but the general understanding remains vague,...
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“Biases: Where do they come from?”– From Ask Anya mails
Following post: Biases: Where do they come from? “I’ve been interested with cognitive biases and misconceptions for some time already, reading all available material on the subject, including your...
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A Happy New Year present for my readers: my Top 5 Favorite Movies for Managers
As Season Greetings are almost upon us and Anyworksmart will traditionally go into well-deserved recess for the next month, I decided to finish the year with something light yet meaningful in order to...
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Judging people: External vs. Internal
Happy New Year, everybody! AnyaWorkSmart is back online and will continue with discussion of every aspect of Management that can be improved by fighting Biases. I decided that the first post of the...
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Why it’s so hard to follow schedules?
There is nothing new in the fact that timelines established for the projects are rarely met. Actually, we got so used to this part of workplace reality that we consider it a problem only in the most...
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The Science of Management: does it really help us?
Last week I’ve been talking to a friend who was just editing the final exam for his course “Decision-making in Disaster management”. Living aside the nice feeling of talking to people from the academic...
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Should we listen to “Gurus”?
“Guess correctly three times and they’ll call you an expert” – said a wise man. In the age of Internet and other mass-media guessing has become especially easy, as every correct prediction could be...
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