Leadership and Management

Structures, roles, and practices for directing collective effort. Encompasses hierarchy, delegation, specialization, coordination, and the tension between control and autonomy in organizing human work.

Entries (40)

• All Warfare Is Deception mental-model
• An Army Marches on Its Stomach metaphor
• Boots on the Ground metaphor
• Center of Gravity metaphor
• Chain of Command metaphor
• Chef de Partie metaphor
• Concentration of Force mental-model
• Dead Sea Effect metaphor
• Death by a Thousand Cuts metaphor
• Decisive Point metaphor
• Defense-to-Offense Transition pattern
• Every Soldier Carries a Marshal's Baton metaphor
• Flanking Maneuver metaphor
• Holding Space metaphor
• Influence Is Physical Force metaphor
• Knowing When Not to Operate metaphor
• Lightning Rod Joke pattern
• Mayday mental-model
• Moral Is to Physical as Three Is to One metaphor
• Organizational Memory Is Archaeological Layers metaphor
• Plane It Smooth metaphor
• Pruning for Growth metaphor
• Put Out to Pasture metaphor
• Reserves and Commitment mental-model
• Sacred Sites pattern
• Scaling Is Dilution metaphor
• Seasoning metaphor
• Servant Leadership paradigm
• Shit Sandwich pattern
• Shokunin paradigm
• Sowing Seeds metaphor
• Striking While the Iron Is Hot metaphor
• Sugar-Coating metaphor
• Supreme Art Is to Subdue Without Fighting mental-model
• T-Shaped People metaphor
• Technical Decisions Are Judicial Rulings metaphor
• The Helmsman metaphor
• The Master's Eye Is the Best Fertilizer mental-model
• Unity of Command pattern
• War on Two Fronts metaphor