hrjn To understand modern management techniques like psychological safety and agile and stuff like that, you have to understand what is fundamentally happening now. You have to understand what is fundamentally happening now.
The keywords are change and learning.
What is Management in the world where the right answer can always change view? This is everything.
hrjn Since the correct answer can change, there is no way that supervisors and managers can show vision as the correct answer. The correct answer can change, so organizational learning must be done quickly. Because the correct answer can change, we must be able to tolerate failure.
Without this understanding, bringing in only methodology is empty.
hrjn Management is at the core of its work, from giving the right answer to reframing the problem. It is important to redefine and solve the problem correctly from the information obtained. The problem is not that the members are not getting results, but that they are not tackling the right problem.
hrjn It will be important for members to provide quick feedback on quick and important results. Six months for results is too long; even three months is too long; feedback on what is important in a month or half a month is required. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a success. Why can’t it work? It can be just that. Bring it back to the organization correctly.
hrjn Without this shift in mindset, only what went well is reported, failures are covered up, output takes longer to come out, and the learning feedback loop in the organization lengthens. Without this shift in mindset, only what works gets reported, failures get covered up, and outputs take longer to come out, lengthening the organization’s learning feedback loop.
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