Volunteers!
Joe Little
Owner, LeanAgileTraining.com, Kitty Hawk Consulting, Agile Coach & Trainer, MBA, CST (Certified Scrum Trainer)
??Rijon Erickson?? gave me a book by Niels Pflaeging : What would Drucker Do?
Peter Drucker is a favorite of mine, for decades now. His quote:
"In a knowledge economy there are no such things as conscripts, there are only volunteers. The trouble is we have taught our managers to manage conscripts."
A useful quote for our Teams and for Managers.
There might be some exceptions. Someone must clean up the bathroom. Usually few volunteers for that one.
Managers: to really get what you want, you must let them volunteer.
How many managers these days do not understand this?
I would hope none; I suspect a good proportion (30%?). I fear that I am too optimistic.
How many managers understand this volunteers concept (basically) but do not enact the idea at all times? I would guess close to all the others (eg, 80% if you believe my 20%).
I suspect that for many of us, in the heat of the moment, in an urgent situation, we forget this key principle.
Professional Scrum Trainer
1 年Admitting that there could even be such a thing as a problem, is what happens before your 1st step which is: admitting to someone that you have a problem, followed by wanting to improve, followed by imaging what actually improving would be like for you, as a pervasive way of being. We've been volunteers all along. I'll admit that too. You may force my hand, but not my mind.