2019-04-11 Contingency management and peacetime management are two different things.
- What is the difference between emergency management and normal times management?
- Emergency (Contingency Management)
- The axis of value is less clear.
- Like “survive.”
- Catching up with and surpassing the West” is also a state of diminishing axes of value.
- It is important to know if there are few axes of value.
- An “emergency” is an example of a situation that arises.
- Fewer axes, so you can discard what is not relevant to your axis from a lot of information.
- One or a few people can make a decision.
- Become an [Achievement-oriented organization
- One or a few people can make a decision.
- The word “leadership” conjures up images of one person leading many.
- This is contingency management
- Management in Ordinary Times
- There are plenty of axes to grind in peacetime.
- Reality is complex to begin with and cannot be expressed on a few axes.
- I had no choice but to focus on some of them in an emergency.
- It’s cognitively painful for one person to make decisions on multiple scales.
- When one person tries to make a decision, it exceeds that person’s cognitive capacity.
- I can’t make a choice between the two.
- Difficult to determine “this information is not necessary.”
- Makes it difficult for one person to grasp the whole picture.
- Tend to get dragged down by Quantitative KPIs.
- It’s hard to recognize a state with a variety of axes, so we jump to a simple scale.
- We have abandoned a proper understanding of reality with its diverse axes, so the problem is usually a mismatch between simple KPIs and complex reality.
- The cost of communicating information is greater.
- Due to the difficulty of discarding
- Both of the following increase the burden
- To be transmitted in words.
- Receiving and understanding words.
- Best practices in this state are “transfers.”
- Delegate decision-making to those who are positioned closer to specific information
- Reduce the amount of information transfer required
- The style of communicating a large amount of complex information from the person who has the information to the person who makes the decision, and then making a decision, is time-consuming & often leads to wrong decisions due to insufficient information communication.
- Peacetime leadership does not try to centralize everything to itself.
- Because that’s where the bottleneck is.
- The role of repeatedly transmitting distant goals and guidelines for decision making becomes stronger.
- Because information dissemination is easily scaled by software.
- The scale will vary.
- multidimensional organization.
- Mixed results are useful in expanding the scope of search
- Reality is complex to begin with and cannot be expressed on a few axes.
- The axis of value is less clear.
2022/11/15 - I saw a discussion about the reforms that Elon Musk is making after acquiring Twitter that are undermining “psychological safety”. - Psychological safety is management in peacetime, and contingency management would be appropriate in Twitter’s current situation, where bankruptcy is a possibility.
@tokoroten: I feel like you don’t know the difference between Wartime Management and Peace Time Management! We’re talking about management in times of war, and you’re side-stepping the standards of management in times of peace, so the conversation is getting a bit muddled.
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