Book - Life
and Death by Process by David Stanley Bell
Life and Death
by Process The Needs of Creative People In
The Workplace
By David Stanley Bell
Available soon...
Synopsis: Company executives and middle
management have the
right to require predictable performance
with methods
of monitoring effort with designated
points of
intervention to prevent things from
going wrong.
Employees have the right to work in
an environment
where they can produce, thrive, be proud
of their work
and be recognized and rewarded for their
work. To
establish repeatability and structure,
companies have
used work processes with varying levels
of success.
The most problems are in the areas that
require
creativity. Work processes have tended
to be binary
in nature with the perception that the
absence of
strict processes means no discipline.
Unfortunately,
in managing people, one size does not
fit all and
creativity needs to be acknowledged.
Technology is people. It is not a book
on the shelf
that just anyone can pick up and learn.
Technology is
the people that learn the state of the
art or their
craft and apply this information creatively
to make
new products or solve problems.
The key is to identify types of employee,
assign the
employees to certain roles and then
apply different
processes to the different roles or
functions. This
book discusses how to apply work processes,
motivate
employees and train and challenge these
different
classes of employee; linear-thinker
repetitive,
multidimensional-thinker repetitive,
linear-thinker
creative, and the multidimensional-thinker
creative.
The linear thinker says "there
is a right way and a
wrong way to do this" while a multidimensional
thinker
with say "there is only one way
to do what?" The book
discusses what goes wrong when we try
to make one size
fit all, who prospers and who suffers.
And when
people suffer, productivity suffers.
If your business requires creative
people, this book
will explain how to manage in a manner
which keeps
employees happy and productive with
efforts that
converge on the solutions you need.
