r/management

39k members
r/management is a subreddit with 39k members. The most common kinds of discussions are ideas and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses leadership, lean, management, agile, and problem solving.
Focused on modern management topics: lean thinking, Deming, innovation, customer focus, six sigma, continual improvement, agile software development and related topics focused on viewing the organization as a system, evidence based management and respect for people.

Popular Themes in r/management

#1
Ideas
: "How to train your team to say "I was wrong" without drama"
12 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "The value of institutional memory"
11 posts
#3
News
: "Why We Work the Way We Work: The Industrial Legacy of Modern Work"
5 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Forced every engineer to take sales calls. They rewrote our entire platform in 2 weeks"
4 posts
#5
Solution Requests
: "The Toyota Triangle and Problem-Solving"
3 posts
#6
Pain & Anger
: "Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing"
2 posts

Popular Topics in r/management

#1

Leadership

: "Jim Benson of Modus Institute: Building Confidence Through Visual Collaboration"
51 posts
#2

Lean

: "Lean Is about the Work: Enhance Value-Creating Work to Truly Transform End-to-End, Value-Stream Performance"
50 posts
#3

Management

: "The Management Skill Nobody Talks About"
49 posts
#4

Agile

: "7 Lessons for the Next Generation of Lean Product and Process Development Leaders"
21 posts
#5

Problem Solving

: "The Eight Disciplines Problem Solving"
16 posts
#6

Culture

14 posts
#7

Improvement

13 posts
#8

Change

13 posts
#9

Software

: "Gaming metrics"
11 posts
#10

Systems Thinking

: "Help for you on your Systems Thinking journey – A review of “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella H. Meadows"
10 posts

Member Growth in r/management

Yearly
+2k members(6.8%)

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Last updated: August 5, 2026