How to find out what a manager really does? Part 1

I’m going to give you a simple idea on how to find out what a manager really does. The idea is so simple that you will find it unbelievable that no one has done it before. But if it’s so simple, why can’t you buy yourself a Steve Jobs? Let’s take a fairly simple example of a profession that has long been automated: the barista. This is a person who professionally selects, brews and serves coffee. Everyone knows that today

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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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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 an artificial manager made of? Part 4 – Events in the imagination

In a previous blog post, I discussed what resources are in the world of an artificial manager. Before that, I still gave definitions of things that come from philosophy. They were the basis of my reflections on what an artificial manager should “see” and how to recognize these objects. Today I will show you the second fundamental element of the robot world – the event. For now it will be an event in the imagination, but later I will describe

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