Manage me, I'm creative

1. Manage me, I’m Creative!
The future of work beyond bean bags and free
snacks
Meetup

2. We have so much in
common
Managing generation Y and producing immaterial products

3. The Start Up approach
Managing 21st century employees

4. “We work in 19th century companies, with 20th century
management structures and 21st century employees”

5. Dear Manager, we’ve
got to talk!
Management is no end in itself

6. We don’t want to work
FOR you
We want to work WITH you

7. Management only exists in relation to people and projects
Management is a
dialogue

8. Simple Definition of DYNAMIC
: always active or changing
: having or showing a lot of energy
: of or relating to energy, motion, or physical force

9. Question everything
Constant change

10. How to get there?

11. Culture is behaviour
Old and new approaches to cultural change (2010 MIT Sloan Management Review/Massachusetts Institute of Technonlogy, all irghts
reserved, distributed by Trubune Content Agency, LLC)

12. In Agile we believe in
iterations

13. In Change we believe in
katas

14. In sports we use katas to
learn things

16. Decrease the time required, increase efficiency, improve structure or increase
simplicity
Positive energy

18. The team’s user journey

19. Learn as much as possible from every conversation, meeting, interaction and
experience.
Relational management

20. What motivates the
team?

21. Who leads next?

22. Know what to
do and
equipped to
do it
Know what to
do, don’t have
the skill to do
it
Got skills,
need direction
Lost
SKILL/KNOWLEDGE
DIRECTION
The Clue/Skill Matrix as seen by Meri Williams

23. bulldoze/
cheerleadpair
give directionguide
SKILL/KNOWLEDGE
DIRECTION
The Clue/Skill Matrix as seen by Meri Williams

24. G oal?
R eality?
O ptions?
W hen?

25. Stop!

26. Theory
Practice
Reality

27. Theory
Practice
Reality
Mindset