What is the real difficulty that we face in wanting to create a true learning organization that overcomes the hierarchical/functional structure and replaces it with the far more suitable network of projects? The real issue here derives from the mental barriers that prevent individuals and organizations from working together as a system for a common […]
Archives for December 2020
How to Manage Decentralized Work – Out of the Crisis Series Part 4
Making the best use of the resources we have in a sustainable way was always necessary, but it became dramatically evident and urgent following the Coronavirus crisis. The lockdowns that forced organizations to carry on working outside their normal locations accelerated a major change that was already taking place – the shift towards digital and […]
Vital Insights from Managing Variation and Constraints – Out of the Crisis Series Part 3
Putting new knowledge to work: Managing Variation and Constraints Stamp out the fire and get nowhere. Stamp out the fires puts us back to where we were in the first place. Taking action on the basis of results without theory of knowledge, without theory of variation, without knowledge about a system. Anything goes wrong, do something about it, […]
What’s Wrong with Organizational Structure – Out of the Crisis Series Part 2
Beneath the tragedy of lost and disrupted lives and the domino effect of economic hardship, the COVID-19 crisis revealed an organizational crisis. Many more crises have and will inevitably continue to plague the world going forward, perhaps with increasing frequency, and so it is vital to understand much better the underlying organizational paradigm and organizational structure […]
A Serious Knowledge Gap Affecting Leaders and Executives – Out of the Crisis Series Part 1
Introducing this series We decided to publish this series to comment on what we see as urgent leadership issues. The multiple global crises the world is experiencing are highlighting a serious knowledge gap affecting leaders and executives. This gap leaves them unprepared to interpret and respond with speed to complex, non-linear phenomena. It is nothing […]
