Disorganizational Behavior Exploring why people and organizations act the way they do Interesting blog by Travis A. Sinquefield. Yes, I will follow his endeavours, if only because I suspect that many interesting organizations show pathological traits – even when they’re not dead yet. And employing and exploring innovative metaphors in organizational settings can give food […]
Hehe, Stowe Boyd rants on Project Red Stripe: I will submit my big idea, and agree to Red Stripe’s terms and conditions — which basically says I will get zilch and they keep everything — in exchange for a six month subscription to The Economist! Tagged as idea thieves. I have showed more diplomacy here: […]
Umair’s at it again, slapping Yahoo! (see here for BMID-content on Yahoo’s innovation culture, Brickhouse etc.) Yahoo doesn’t need a Brickhouse (aka skunkworks). Contrast Yahoo with Google. Google doesn’t just have one Brickhouse – it has thousands. That’s the net effect of management innovations Google has pioneered, which give people the space to play, experiment, […]
Via Stephan List: The Art of Complex Problem Solving, eine sehr schöne animierte Grafik (ins Bild klicken …). Leider ist eine solche ganzheitliche Sicht auf komplexe Probleme nicht weit verbreitet – weder in der Führung von Organisationen noch in der Politik, dabei wären mehr Musterbrecher dringend nötig. Es mangelt in der Tat nicht an Methoden, […]
On a TGIF night everything’s OK, so get ready for some light food for thought, and some more “organizational pathologies” … Carmine Coyote c/o Slow Leadership calls for leaders to try something new in management, because Pragmatism is fine for second-rate businesses handling commodity products, but that route will never win long-term market leadership. Visionary […]
Here’s one little piece on group thinking and the longing for consensus, it’s questionable research on many counts, but offers a trigger for thinking … Of course, this calls for better preparation (like goal and agenda setting), running (like using creativity and innovative thinking techniques … but also documenting helps) and follow-up of meetings (ever […]
An article in the Telegraph, reporting from an encounter and interview with Russell Ackoff, grand-father of systems thinking. Some gems include: The idea that you can improve a business by focusing on just part of it is plain wrong, Ackoff says. In fact, it’s more serious than that: attempted “improvements” can actually make everything else […]
