When people assert that they are pro-business we really don’t know what they mean. It all depends upon what they believe the purpose of business is. Is it to maximize profit for its owners? Is it to provide its executives with as much material gain as possible? Is it to provide people with quality goods [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Business: The Short and Long of It
Posted in Economy, Progress, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Business of business, Economy, Leadership, management, Progress, Quality, Systems Thinking on September 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Of Fades and Failures
Posted in organizational design, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Business of business, Change, Leadership, management, organizational design, Quality, Systems Thinking, Variation on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that many great ideas for improving how we manage our organizations become fades and ultimately fade away? Fades and failures were frequently seen during the 1980′s and early 1990′s when many top-level executives sought to colonize—but not adapt to—the principles of quality management. They wanted the benefits of quality but not its [...]
Good or Bad, Still a Manager
Posted in Leadership, Quality, tagged Business of business, Change, Development of Self, human spirit, management, Quality, relationships on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s conduct a thought experiment. Imagine bringing all managers together to ask them to raise their hand if they are a bad manager. What percent do you think raises their hand? Would it be 100%, 50%, 10% or 0%?
Potential Actualized
Posted in Leadership, Relationships, Systems Thinking, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, human spirit, Leadership, management, organizational design, partnership, Quality, relationships, Systems Thinking on September 20, 2010 | 24 Comments »
What potential does any one organization have? The answer lies in understanding the organization as a system, which is code for understanding the organization as a purposeful web of (interdependent) relationships.
Objects or Subjects
Posted in Leadership, Relationships, Statistical Thinking, tagged Complexity, Decision-making, Leadership, Learning, management, Statistical Thinking, Variation on September 16, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Newton’s laws of motion afford the quantification of the motion of matter (i.e. objects) and correspondingly by way of calculation the determination of the movement of the objects. It is because of these laws we can determine the effect of two objects interacting (colliding), such as when a golf club hits a golf ball or [...]
CEO Self-Interest
Posted in Economy, Leadership, Life, tagged Business of business, Economy, Moral Values, Systems Thinking on September 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
As previously presented the recent gains in corporate profit have come largely as a result of a big squeeze on labor. Moreover we learned the labor squeeze is well out of proportion to the economic hit corporations were taking. But this is not the end of the story; it continues to unfold.
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #15
Posted in Leadership, partnership, Relationships, tagged human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, relationships on September 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Anne Berkowitch, the co-founder and CEO of SelectMinds, shares her view of keys to effective leadership in an interview with Adam Bryant of the New York Times. Anne states “it’s really about being able to bring together a group of people, get the best out of them and get them wanting to work as a [...]
Changing Our Reality
Posted in Change, Leadership, Life, tagged Change, Economy, human spirit, Leadership, Progress on September 5, 2010 | 7 Comments »
From a quantum mechanics perspective we know that our relationship with reality is not only reciprocally interdependent but that we are also creators of our reality. Moreover reality is not just physical, it is also non-physical, non-material (i.e. metaphysical).
20th Century Management Lives On
Posted in Leadership, Progress, Quality, tagged Business of business, human spirit, Leadership, management, Progress, Quality on September 1, 2010 | 8 Comments »
A Wall Street Journal article titled, The End of Management, offers an argument for the need of management of (big) business organizations to change stating “everything we learned in the last century about managing large corporations is in need of a serious rethink. We have both a need and an opportunity to devise a new [...]
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