Planosaurus
Organizational Monsters, Management
Organizational Monsters > Management

Left & Right

Left & Write

Characteristics

  • Can’t effectively track progress, resources and risks
  • Doesn’t track progress and resources and address issues in a timely manner
  • Tracking progress and risk is challenging because of a lack of support, infrastructure, systems and cultural norms

Habitat

Situation Status

Food Source

Status of progress is unknown

Fun Fact

The other monsters mock Left & Write for carrying a murse (man purse)

Tips for Control

With so many moving parts and complex lines of authority, how do you make sure you know what’s going on everywhere? Planosaurus helps organizations improve management tracking processes and systems because when Left & Write aren’t talking, you don’t know if progress is being made.

Wasteful

Wasteful

Characteristics

  • Can’t plan, track and report on resource utilization
  • Doesn’t carefully manage or report on resource utilization
  • Managing resources is challenging due to a lack of support, infrastructure, systems and cultural norms

Habitat

Resources

Food Source

Thoughtless consumption of resources

Fun Fact

Wasteful’s favorite song is “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits

Tips for Control

The economy has forced us all to do more with less. It’s even harder for collaborative work as the very nature of it requires pooled resources, complex decision-making processes, and transparency. Planosaurus helps organizations improve resource utilization and reporting so you aren’t being Wasteful.



Organizational Monsters often invite their friends so where there is one…Here are the signs that Organizational Monsters are destroying your collaborative productivity.

Black Hole

Boards, committees and teams who are neither efficient nor effective

Meetapalooza

Bad meetings or a culture that generates many unproductive meetings

Loop

Information that never gets to the right people the right way at the right time

X-Lack

Lack of sustainable support on initiatives from leadership

Dis Respect

Apathy or an unhealthy sense of competition

Whatever

People not liable for their undesirable behavior

Creep

Managers lack control over the vision and/or process

Quicksand

Potential problems are not seen or blatantly ignored

Wasteful

Status of progress is unknown

Left & Write

Thoughtless consumption of resources

Wing It

Lack of process in place for planning from start to finish

Circle of Strife

Anywhere people are ‘making it up as they go’



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