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Death by Reorganization

Clark Quinn wrote something back in November about the epidemic of continual reorganizations and what might be behind it: Really, if an organization is restructuring regularly, it’s probably a sign that it’s trying to adapt structurally to an environment that is increasingly chaotic.  And that approach just isn’t going to work anymore. Organizations have to […]

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Taking Management to the Moon

From the Management Exchange site: “In May 2008, thirty-five management scholars and practitioners came together to begin the work of defining an agenda for management innovation in the 21st century. This “renegade brigade” included veteran management experts like Peter Senge, C.K. Prahalad, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Yves Doz, and Tom Malone, new-age management thinkers like James Surowiecki […]

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Secrets of Success: Sheep or Apprentices?

What is the secret of success? Right decision. How do you make right decision? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decision. For me, this summed up developing as a manager and leader in one image. And yet systems are always looking for the quick fix: train them! Pour the information into their head (preferably in as […]