Democracy vs Totalitarianism 2
Larry BlankenshipMember for 21 years
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See, I beat you to it!
Perhaps a more apropos question in the context of Project Management and Planning is to ask what people prefer to use as a management style?
There are two prevalent theories, Theory X and Theory Y (I can never keep them straight) that in my mind boil down to Supervision and Leadership, tight and loose, Totalitarianism and Democracy.
Having been at both extremes, I’m down to the Ronald Reagan school of management "trust but verify"
Larry
Perhaps a more apropos question in the context of Project Management and Planning is to ask what people prefer to use as a management style?
There are two prevalent theories, Theory X and Theory Y (I can never keep them straight) that in my mind boil down to Supervision and Leadership, tight and loose, Totalitarianism and Democracy.
Having been at both extremes, I’m down to the Ronald Reagan school of management "trust but verify"
Larry
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Oldest first- 0Gordon Blair ·As I’m currently working with a PM who feels he needs a separate WBS for each activity, and design related activities accounted down to 12 minute increments.. I’m all for a slightly looser grip on things.
Am hoping I can get him run over, before we ever get this contract signed... ;o) - 0Larry Blankenship ·12 minutes?!!!
Some people don’t understand the difference between doing the work and controlling it...
My philosophy is that if it takes longer to report it than it does to do it, you have too much detail.
Oh well...Micromanagers are why I’m no longer an employee, except on a contract basis. My experience has been that I get more leeway as a contractor to do things the way I know they should be done. Not that I’m always that brilliant.
Larry - 0Andrew Flowerdew ·From memory Mr Jonker was the instigator of the original thread. In line with that, one quote for you to ponder on Philip:
"An historical analysis of the jurisprudential or philosophical justification for law (and moderators!!!)demonstrates a dependency between the choosen theory of law and the prevailing ethical political social and economic characteristics of the society in which the law is operating.
One of the earliest theories of law is Natural Law which subscribes to the view that all laws are subject to overriding immutable truths which are derived from God or a divinity (the idealist school) or from physical laws of nature (the empirical school)"
Quote from Richard Winward in "Legal Obligations in Construction", published by Construction Law Press
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