This week's management hypothesis is a slight departure from current HR thinking. This week, this blog puts it to you not to believe that everyone is a talented individual wanting to unlock their potential. This blog asks you to change your mindset in light of the serious errors leading to the current financial crisis. This blog asks you to accept the notion that everyone, including this poster, is disastrously inept, incompetent and, occasionally, very, very stupid. Previously called Human Error, this new theory 'Incompetency Management and Leveraging Ineptitude' (IMLI) explains the UK's corporate working culture in a far more insightful manner than anything previously proposed. IMLI now retails on this very blog at a bargain £245.99 (excluding £146 postage and packaging) and can help organisations accurately measure their performance and save them, let's say, oh, £4 billion? The immense frauds perpetuated by Madoff and Stanford on top of the stunning collapse of hitherto profitable banks and the ruin of the financial 'Masters of the Universe' has really only highlighted what most of us know already: No one in any position of authority or control is doing anything other than making it up as they go along. Using IMLI, we can see that those in middle management jobs are simply trying to cover up the number of mistakes made my those employees above and below them. IMLI also knows that the more junior echlons of the workforce would just rather be in the pub. Those we temporarily class as 'successful' are, according to IMLI, only so because their peers are more inept at their jobs and ill-informed than themselves. IMLI puts Inspector Clouseau at the heart of HR Management Theory. With IMLI, there are no disappointments, there are no over-inflated financial targets. With IMLI there is just the simple understanding that human error will ultimately triumph while also ruining everything.
