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Crazy chess, makes sense

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Nice blog post on getting the balance right, inspired by a crazy game of chess. Like the point about the difference between management and control, but in reality that takes a lot of confidence to pull off. Which brings in the value of experience I guess:

As managers, we have a tendency to want things done the right way (aka our way) … we don’t like things happening around us we don’t understand and we definitely don’t like change.

It strikes me, that to be a successful 2.0 manager, you need to:

  • know when to sit and watch
  • know when to let things run their course and for how long
  • know when to intervene (or engage) and how to do that without alienating everyone
  • realise that management and control are not the same thing … relinquishing control can be a good management technique … and …
  • be humble enough to accept that there may be more than one way to get things done and our way might not suit everyone’s needs.

Internal communications using RSS

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I was asked the other day “a way of setting staff up with an internal RSS aggregator that they then use to pull content from the company’s intranet? Rather than something that draws feeds from external sites”. And there are plenty of good products out there to deal with this, and good advice. But what inspired me was the thought that using WordFrame’s autopost feature you could set up a blog for each employee, as it turns feeds into posts. So in effect use the internal RSS feeds to start the individual blogs off with enterprise directed content, and use this in turn to help to spur employees to get their own blog going as well as the corporate content. And this in turn would inspire sharing of each others feeds. Neat, if that fits your empowering needs.