Learn about the different colors of management

There is no single good and proven recipe for making your project, team or company work well. Good practices that work in a friendly organization may not necessarily work for you. Why? The difference often lies in the level of development of the company or group. In order to effectively manage your business, you need to determine at what stage of development you are and choose the right color... management!

Several such colors are listed, hiding valuable tips to make management a little easier.
Which one will work best for you? We invite you to read the entry.

Beige

This is the color assigned to companies that are just trying their hand at the job market. In this case, it is not worth wasting time implementing any management methods. We need to trust our intuition and simply act.

The most important aspect at such a stage is to get to know the market and stay there.

Purple

Many organizations operate and implement projects in silos. A group operating in a silo feels safe - it often operates in a routine, taking on more orders and ticking tasks off the list step by step. And there is nothing wrong with this pattern, however, when individuals need to get out of a given silo, chaos can ensue.

Red

The assumptions hidden behind this color can help embrace the chaos that has occurred. Quite a few, as many as 20% of organizations, use this model.

It is a method of power and domination - a strong leader leads the group, brings things to a conclusion in his own way, has a definite plan of action and does not like opposition.

Such management has a right to exist, and many organizations operate very effectively this way

Blue

The next stage in the evolution of management - here we realize that defining specific rules and procedures will allow us to extract more potential from the organization. This is the dominant color in the job market, so it may seem familiar to many.

Orange

This is an organization that functions consciously, measures results and, based on these results, selects the next appropriate actions that result in the development of the company.

The characteristics of this color are autonomy and achievement. This means a desire to delegate responsibility to the employee. However, appreciation and rewards for effort are not forgotten.

Turquoise

A characteristic feature of organizations that operate according to this scheme is the lack of hierarchy of authority - he who dares leads. The main goal here is self-organization and self-management, all of which is based on trust and partnership.
Many organizations aspire to this management style, but it will not be appropriate everywhere.

Therefore, it is worth doing a kind of self-assessment, which will help us understand what our leadership style is, what color suits us best, what we want to aspire to. It is also important to know where our organization is and what can be done to develop it.

Of course, it is very difficult to meet a one-color organization. Often different colored practices are used at the same time, finding the golden mean. We recommend taking this topic as an inspiration to find ways to make the organization function as smoothly as possible.