Perhaps you didn’t even know why your work mattered in the long run or how it fit into the bigger picture of your organization’s goals. Or maybe you’ve been on a team where you had to compete with your colleagues for resources and recognition, even when you were supposed to be collaborating. Have you ever worked somewhere where you felt like a cog in a machine? You were expected to execute someone else’s orders without being able to share your own ideas or offer any input. This status quo looks like command-and-control, a style of management that values efficiency and productivity over all else-including diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Most importantly, for managers and leaders working for social justice and educational equity, an intentional approach helps you avoid defaulting to the status quo. It’ll help you improvise when you confront unfamiliar challenges and contexts where there’s no playbook or quick fix. Don’t get us wrong-we love a great tool! But we believe that your management should be grounded in an overarching approach-a set of values or principles to guide your actions and decisions.Ī clear approach will help you navigate both the routine and unexpected parts of being a manager. Four legs good and all that.Being a great manager is more than tools and techniques and knowing your way around a MOCHA. Someone did suggest the pigs might like to start a revolution. Meanwhile Justin has got it in for Berrow Farm.
Chris has resolutely declined Brian Aldridge’s offer to move into the Hobbit, one of the Home Farm holiday cottages, presumably on aesthetic grounds (stupid name for a cottage).
Housing update, should you wish to refresh your spreadsheet: Alice is back in the Nest, Stella’s off to the Bungalow and Rex has bought a narrowboat, which he’s moored on the Am. Still, it’s hard not to retain a soft spot for the increasingly mellow Jim, who has been noticing that Chelsea Horrobin, despite outward appearances, is made from true gold all the way through. Suggested topics of conversation, terrifyingly, included: What makes you sad? What is your favourite number? The idea of sitting down doing enforced chatting with any of them, frankly, is gruesome. There was social speed-dating in the Bull for Valentine’s. But, Kirsty: please don’t move to Bulgaria! Sure, it’s got a Roman amphitheatre, a view on to the Rhodope mountains, and you can get a beer for a quid. It was European capital of culture in 2019, she pointed out to her pals, with no great conviction. Kirsty! The woman who is evidently the person made to replace Phoebe at the rewilding project has got a job in a hotel in Plovdiv, of all places. Perhaps she could go and visit the terrifying institution in which her great-grandfather Jack Archer drank himself to death back in the 1970s.Īnd Kirsty. Phoebe’s off, having got herself a job in the Highlands, something to do with microalgae. Still, one should be careful what one wishes for. Just when she was six months sober and coping nicely with baby Martha, her ex, Chris, and her best friend, Amy, had a one-night stand – heralded by the immortal morning-after line, “Can you pass my bra?” When Alice finds out, she’ll relapse, mark my words, and the divorce will get ugly, and it’ll go to court, and Chris will get a massive chunk of Home Farm, and the Fall of the House of Aldridge will be complete.
I’d have to check with Alice Aldridge and her engineering degree to get this right, but as applied to her own situation, I’d say that this broadly translates as: if things seem to be going pretty well, it’s only a matter of time before the gods of Ambridge retaliate with equal and opposite disaster. I dimly remember that Newton’s third law of motion is something to do with equal and opposite forces.
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