At Intelligent Management we work beyond improvement; our goal is to inspire and highlight a path to transformation. To transform what? The prevailing silo-based management style into one of system optimization. The word ‘sechel’, the title of one of our books, indicates in Hebrew precisely the intelligence required to achieve this: systemic intelligence, i.e. what […]
The Leaders We Need Today
A leader is someone who connects with something deep inside you and brings out the leader in all of us. Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, these are some of the great leaders of our times. They inspired people to go beyond what they thought they were capable of to achieve something momentous for the […]
Empowerment – How and Why
What do we mean by empowerment and why is it such a tricky matter? What tools can we use to make sure empowerment is done more effectively? In our last post we looked at the transformational nature of the Theory of Constraints. The road to transformation is paved with actions. In any organization, things need […]
The Transformational Power of TOC (Theory of Constraints)
Once you have understood and experienced the transformational power of the Theory of Constraints there is no going back. It changes your life in ways that you might not have imagined. This is true for individuals as much as it is for companies and organizations. Where does that shift come from? Today is the 4th […]
Make Profit or Do Good – Solving the Conflict
When you think of making a profit versus doing good as a conflict, you can quickly get to the root of the problem. Much of it has to do with the way we think about what profit is. When we challenge our understanding of profit, all kinds of new possibilities arise. How do we do that? The […]
Why Every Business Should Be a Social Enterprise
Seth Godin in his blog has just pointed out that everything we do as enterprises, good or bad, impacts our community. We took that concept a step deeper to say that there is no conflict between doing good for the community and making a profit, as described in this excerpt from our new book ‘The Human Constraint’. […]
The Theory of Constraints for Software Development and DevOps (or How to Train Your Phoenix)
Intelligent Management Inc. was recently invited by the IT department of a large insurance company to teach them about the Theory of Constraints. They read a recent book called ‘The Phoenix Project’ that points to the Theory of Constraints as a solution for radically improving software development and delivery. In this post we look at how […]
The Big Picture of Management Through the Theory of Constraints (TOC)
Due to the global success of Dr. Goldratt’s first business novel ‘The Goal’ most people mistakenly think of TOC as just a technique for manufacturing. While TOC does produces fast and radical improvements in manufacturing processes, it is in fact a whole system philosophy and method. The thinking that underlies this theory stems from a worldview […]
The Problem with Business Schools Today (a Systems View)
A recent article in Forbes magazine provides yet another attack on Business Schools as they are today: “…the case studies at the heart of much business school education are cartoonishly simple and provide no grounds for scientifically respectable generalizations.” In this extract from our recent business novel, The Human Constraint, we take a look at what […]
Why Are There So Many Bad Managers? (And Why Are Project Managers the Solution?)
An alarming number of people leave their jobs because of bad managers, according to a recent report from Gallup. This is bad news not just for the unhappy employees but for the organizations who lose good resources. Management has been around for a long time, so why are people still so bad at it? Being […]
