Leadership and Management skills - have we been doing it wrong all along?
What if we could show and grow greater leadership strengths by doing less management? We’ve heard about ditching performance reviews. What about getting rid of recurring meetings? What about pay reviews? What if we got rid of managers altogether and let people manage themselves? Could such radical autonomy be a solution to management woes? Author and former IT manager at Moonfruit, Matt Casey tells all in this revealing interview.
Why you should listen: these are leadership principles reinvented
Why streamlining management practices is essential to run a lean organisation
How cutting management functions actually increased performance
Discover alternatives to the dreaded performance reviews and the associated pay review
We explore leadership effectiveness:
Recurring meetings: why the internet made these a waste of time
What makes an extraordinary boss, and why most of us won’t get there: honesty, credibility, and the ability to challenge others in a way that makes them see their own blindspots. These are critical leadership attributes.
How Uber reputation ratings can be used for teammates to rate each other: use the questions, “Could they do the job? Did they do the job? Do you want to work with them again?”
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About leadership expert Matt Casey:
Author, leadership and management expert Matt Casey
Matt Casey left school at 14 and worked in the IT and SaaS industries. He recently co-founded his business DoThings, which provides People Management Software to make managing easier. Matt manages and trains managers at every level of the org chart and has written two books - The Management Delusion and We Need to Talk About Scrum.
Matt was hired by Yell.com to make Moonfruit self-sufficient as a business. In order to sufficiently manage 40 members of staff and dramatically cut business costs, he removed performance reviews, one on ones, status updates, and pay reviews. Over three years he removed all management structures and rebuilt the business, turning a profit each year.
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About your podcast host, leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted stuff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.