We’ve all heard management “nuggets” such as “make people come to you with solutions, nut just problems,” or “training time is wasted time,” or my favorite, “work smarter.” But how are you supposed to do that, especially if you may not have received any management training, or if your gut is telling you what you’re doing might not be working? Johanna Rothman explains that much of what you have heard about management is myth—based not on evidence, but on ideas dating from the Industrial Revolution. However, many myths have a germ of truth. If you would like to learn about these germs—the kinds of training that are useless and the kinds that are useful, how to really work smarter, how to help people develop solutions when they are stuck—the kind of management that empowers knowledge workers, join Johanna in exploding management myths.
2. Johanna Rothman
Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.
Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” helps organizational leaders identify
problems and risks in their product development helping them recognize potential “gotchas,”
seize opportunities, and remove impediments. Johanna is the technical editor
for agileconnection.com and is the author of Manage Your Job Search, Hiring Geeks That Fit,
Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, the 2008 Jolt
Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management,
and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management. She is currently writing a book about
agile program management. In addition, she writes columns
for Stickyminds.com and projectmanagment.com, and writes two blogs on her web
site,jrothman.com, as well as a blog on createadaptablelife.com.