Do managers remember what they did in a particular situation?

Most research in management science is conducted using survey techniques and questionnaires. This is a standard that, at least in Poland, newer and newer students of this science are accepting, and older students are continuing the tradition. I have repeatedly written in my scientific and popular articles about the low reliability and accuracy of such surveys. As a result, it is difficult to build knowledge about what a manager really does. Of course, there are thousands, if not hundreds of

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Could a robotic Nicolaus Copernicus be your boss?

When we think of an artificial manager, it keeps coming to mind what this new creature that will move into your boss’s office sooner or later might look like. Should your artificial manager take the form of a human like Sophia, a C-3PO-style robot from Star Wars, an all-powerful Robocop or just a single red point of light like HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey? What your artificial manager will be like, we’ll see in a few

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What is the world of an artificial manager made of? Part 6 – Let’s combine resources and processes

Remember what the starting point of our deliberations was in the past few days? In the first part of the topic, What the world of an artificial manager is made of, I told what sense is necessary for an artificial manager. It was a sense of activity. Other senses our new boss could have, but the most important thing is that it should be able to recognize what actions are being taken, and be able to take some action (managerial

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What is the world of an artificial manager made of? Part 5 – Events as processes

In the previous post I described what events in the world of the artificial manager are. You could call them events in the imagination, they were somewhat abstract and theoretical. Now let’s consider what these events are realistically in the world of an organization, a company, a project. I will describe here what these events can be and why we say they are processes. This will be another piece of the puzzle for you to understand how the manager’s sense

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What is the world of a robot manager made of? Part 1 – The senses of a robot manager

If we want to create a robot manager, we need to consider what its abstract world will consist of, so that the artificial manager can recognize it, register it “in its memory” and then take action in terms of managing a team, processes or a project. This is the first and also the most difficult task facing the designer of artificial managers. So here we go! Each of us, when we perceive the external world through the human five senses,

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