I’m a big fan of the Corporate Rebels blog, so I was interested to receive this post yesterday, about what managment might look like after Coronavirus.

In it they discuss Mintzberg’s Continuum of Management:

 

 

The blog is an instructive read, so I won’t reproduce it here.  I’d just like to make a few observations of my own:

• Most organisations I’ve worked in, have barely made it past a ‘participative’ style.
• Mintzberg and the Corporate Rebels believe that ‘No managers’ is not a viable option.  I disagree.
• Having a clear Promise of Value, and a Score for how you deliver on it, helps any organisation move from left to right along this line. All the way to the end, if you want.