Organizations today are plagued by silos. They create artificial barriers that not only slow down but undermine the efforts of companies to achieve their goal. What is needed, instead, is a whole system organization capable of maximizing the flow of its processes, the quality of its output and the involvement of everyone working there. How can […]
Archives for October 2016
Purpose and Brand: What’s the Difference?
We’re just back from 5 weeks in Europe and plenty of new input from clients and conversations with universities. We’ll be reporting back on all that. One of the themes that comes up regularly in our work is that of purpose. This is because we generally start a relationship with a new client by […]
Management Education: Updating Learning for the Age of Complexity
The major problem managers face today is complexity, and the current business degrees and MBAs on offer are not equipping their graduates with the right knowledge and tools. Managers today must be able to understand how things interdepend and evolve in order to navigate complexity. In our previous post we proposed a solution for organizational […]