leadership
Even in our most pragmatic moments, something elusive tugs at the edges of management. We create schedules, set metrics, establish procedures—all necessary elements of organizational life. Yet in the spaces between these structured elements, we sense something more fluid, less containable. This tens
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Data: we need a better metaphor Metaphors shape the way we think about things. [current] metaphors imagine public data as a huge, passive, untapped resources - lakes of stuff that only has value when it is extracted and processed. But this framing completely removes the individual agency that created the stuff
leadership
Consider that ubiquitous organisation chart, with its silly boxes of “top”, and “middle”, and bottom managers. How come we never say “bottom managers”? This is no more than a distorted metaphor. It tells us that we are fixated on who has authority over what and whom. The painting may not
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So I’ve said to them that the analogy that best suits us is, “We’re a team,” and in a team, everybody’s got a role to play. And the team wins when everybody plays their roles to their best ability. The other thing that’s different in a