Category: top-down management

How Not to Manage Your Country (or Project)

September 5, 2008 by JurgenAppelo

Having returned from a 2-week vacation in Cuba, it is interesting to see that managers can learn a lot from this unique country in the Caribbean Sea. The people in Cuba are ruled by one of the last authentic socialist regimes in the world. Socialism is a fully top-down management system. It doesn't work.

Cuba is a perfect example of how not to manage people and their daily lives.

Here is a collection of random thoughts I had while driving around this beautiful country...