Evidence Based-Management

Evidence Based-Management

1. Common Business Decisions Drivers

   • DO THIS
     • Lessons
     • Experiences
   • NOT THIS
     • Ideologies
     • Casual Benchmarking
     • Hope and Fear

2. Impediments

   • Ego
   • Fear the truth
   • Messy Business Practices
   • All or Nothing adoptions

3. Bases

   • Reject non-sense
   • Understand half-truths
   • Face hard-facts

4. Talent Management

   • Prestige, Pride and Performace
   • Effective System
   • Well-Trained People
   • Smartness and Wisdom
   • Reeducation

5. Real Strategies

   • Know what you know, and know what you don't.
   • Learn as you go along
   • Keep an eye on implementations
   • Listen to what the environment is telling you
   • Focus is great but can create blinders
   • Keep it Simple
   • Balance time, Attention and Resources

6. Best Practices

   • Treat Old Ideas as Old
   • Be Suspicious of Breakthrough Ideas and Studies
   • Emphasize the virtues and drawbacks
   • Celebrate Collective Smart and Brilliance
   • Take a neutral approach to ideologies and theories.
   • Use Success and Failures Stories to Illustrate sound practices

7. Dangerous Half-Truths and the Workplace

   • Love is not in the Air
   • You are what You Dress
   • Your Time is our Time
   • Leave your Emotions at the Door
   • Your Colleagues are your own Foes
   • Just Do what You Are Told
   • Work is just about the Job

8. Compensations and Incetives

   • Simple
   • Effective
   • Agreed Upon Measures

9. Change Management

   • Time, Money and Disruption
   • Experiments and Pilot Programs
   • Interests
   • Reorganization
   • Drive out Fear
   • Risks

10. Leadership

    • Build System and Teams
    • Control and Confidence
    • Realities and Limitations
    • Visionary
    • Feedback and Guidance

11. Actions

    • Right Mind-Set
    • Attitude of Wisdom
    • Commit to Facts
    • Master of the Obvious
    • Judge as an Outsider