With engaging stories and incisive analysis, "Nine Lies About Work" reveals the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matter most; that we should focus less on
top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention.
It is an innovation because it veers away from the conventional
top-down planning process from the national government down to local implementers.
What they actually do is far more onerous, a case of
top-down planning from flower arrangements and wedding invites -- they work with an in-house florist and graphic designer -- to running power cables and looking after overseas guests.
By the time she took a leave of absence from Architectural Forum to write what remains her most iconic book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), Jacobs was already starting to acquire a reputation as a fierce critic of conventional
top-down planning.
The March 23 guest viewpoint by three people calling themselves the Walkable Eugene Citizen Advisory Network is a telling example of how hard-charging proponents of we-know-best,
top-down planning want to impose unwanted upzoning and poorly conceived densification on single-family neighborhoods across Eugene.
While the authors say they don't want government
top-down planning to rule the economy and our lives, I fear that their ideas, if taken seriously, would be useful to those who do.
Leaders often adopt a structured and
top-down planning process even in the midst of appearing to seek community engagement and involvement.
"We've scrapped the W failed
top-down planning system, built over 445,000 homes and kept interest rates low for homeowners.
We've scrapped the failed
top-down planning system, built over 445,000 homes and kept interest rates low for homeowners.
There are numerous ways of constructing a business plan but it usually comes down to one of two methods, either a
top-down planning exercise or a bottomup planning exercise.
The fourth paradigm shift, from
top-down planning and management to province-led devolution, was also rejected by the DA leadership, which was even bent on pushing to re-centralize agricultural extension services.