Enjoyed the breakdown of All Stakeholder Management Advice Ever, and I think you could go further. My take is that the simplistic nature of the advice reflects a general flaw in frameworks: they promise you mechanistic control of the world, but itās a lie.
Did you see the Wire/politics post from Hang Xu recently? It was about designers, sure, but really itās the same thing: the job is politics! Politics is people! People are messy and complex (and donāt fit in a matrix or a framework)! People arenāt a task to check off in Jira.
Anyway, glad youāre flagging it in this post, dude. Iād say an area with some useful ideas about the people side of things is complexity science and naturalising sense-making - for example methods to stimulate informal networks. They donāt give you a way to āmanage stakeholdersā ... but maybe stakeholders donāt particularly want to feel managed!
Enjoyed the breakdown of All Stakeholder Management Advice Ever, and I think you could go further. My take is that the simplistic nature of the advice reflects a general flaw in frameworks: they promise you mechanistic control of the world, but itās a lie.
Did you see the Wire/politics post from Hang Xu recently? It was about designers, sure, but really itās the same thing: the job is politics! Politics is people! People are messy and complex (and donāt fit in a matrix or a framework)! People arenāt a task to check off in Jira.
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Anyway, glad youāre flagging it in this post, dude. Iād say an area with some useful ideas about the people side of things is complexity science and naturalising sense-making - for example methods to stimulate informal networks. They donāt give you a way to āmanage stakeholdersā ... but maybe stakeholders donāt particularly want to feel managed!