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Systems Thinking and Extraordinarily Intelligent Organizations
If business leaders want to manage at the pace of accelerating change, they will need to embrace the notion that the critical work of management is no…
Jul 10
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June 2024
Most Human Decisions Are Based on Cognitive Illusions
The human brain is a paradox. While humans can produce highly developed analytical and creative intelligence, they are also prone to make senseless…
Jun 19
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The Peer-to-Peer Network Is the Future of Management
The self-managed peer-to-peer network represents the future of management because, unlike top-down bureaucracies, this innovative way of organizing has…
Jun 12
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Rod Collins
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May 2024
The Emergence of the Teal Organization
According to Frederic Laloux, the author of Reinventing Organizations: A Guide for Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human…
May 27
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Transforming the Leadership Team
In the summer of 2006, Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford and then CEO of the Ford Motor Company, informed his Board of Directors that the…
May 15
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Why Peer-to-Peer Networks Outperform Top-Down Hierarchies
Hierarchies and networks are not equal alternative structures.
May 1
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April 2024
We’re a Network, Not a Hierarchy
In the late 1990s, I had the opportunity to lead the Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal Employee Program (FEP) operations, the world's largest privately…
Apr 25
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The Fatal Flaws of Top-Down Management
In late 1999, Michael Schrage, a business innovation consultant, was hired by the video rental giant Blockbuster to help the company address a nagging…
Apr 18
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Improving Human Decision Making
On December 28, 1978, United flight 173 took off from JFK airport in New York bound for Portland, Oregon with a stopover in Denver.
Apr 10
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March 2024
Transforming the Nature of Power in Organizations
Whether an organization is effective or not is all about power. Effective organizations are influential players who are able to shape the world when…
Mar 28
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Peer-to-Peer Networks Are the Future of Organizational Work
One of the most consequential developments of the Digital Age is that centralized, hierarchical organizations that leverage the individual intelligence…
Mar 20
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Thinking Differently
In the twentieth century, business leaders believed the secret to corporate growth and longevity was finding a way to differentiate your products from…
Mar 6
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