Management by the Many or Management by Email Group
Does the communication and decision making in your organization get hijacked?
A friend recently shared with me and an interesting observation:
In both emails,…, I think we have examples of what I might call Management by the Many, or Management by Email Group. In other words, anyone who has an agenda can simply put an email group together, sent out their communication to the group, and either go ahead with their plan feeling as though they have the whole group’s agreement and that they are acting in the best interests of the organization, or hope to get feedback and then take action – hence, Management by sending an email to the group of your choice.
Organizational process and communication need to be two way at all times. The flow needs to be from the Board to the Director to Committee Chairs to members, guests and email recipients – and back up – equally in both directions.
Corporations have trouble with this. Why should we expect nonprofits to be any better?
Have you had problems with this? How have you solved them?
photo credit: Lars Plougmann
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