As usual, the Intelligent Management team are straddling two continents and the travel commitments have kept us occupied. To continue the flow with this series on the Ten Steps of the Decalogue Method, a systemic method for management, we’re inserting a short piece about leadership that was written just as the world was in the […]
How to Drastically Improve Company Results Through Healthy Interactions – A Systemic Approach Part 4
Now that we know how to measure what matters (see How to Make the Best Decisions for Your Company and Measure What Matters – A Systemic Approach to Management Part 3 ) we can focus on really understanding the interactions in our organization/system. Step Two of the Decalogue Method is Understand the system (draw the interdependencies). If we […]
How to Make the Best Decisions for Your Company and Measure What Matters – A Systemic Approach Part 3
In the previous post we looked at interdependencies and establishing the goal of the system. In order to steer our system in the right direction we have to know how to make the right decisions. To do this it is essential that we be capable of assessing to what extent our system is achieving its […]
Interdependencies and Establishing the Goal of Your Organization – A Systemic Approach Part 2
Over the summer months we are looking in detail at the essential steps to create a significant leap in the performance of your organization, based on the Ten Steps of the Decalogue Method. The ‘‘how’’ in how we manage our organizations has to be radically transformed. Our goal must be a way of behaving and […]
Radically Improving Organizational Performance – a Systemic Approach Part 1
We have received thousands of views on LinkedIn for a post about the mindset shift necessary for a different kind of organization. While we didn’t create the infographic, we wholeheartedly agree with it but, in fairness, over the last 25 years of the Decalogue method we have done much, much more. No matter […]
How to Put an End to Meaningless Meetings: an Operational Process
Every human activity aimed at producing a result, whether it’s a product or a service requires collaboration. And collaboration and cooperation are increasingly stressed in the workplace today. It’s not just a feel good thing, it actually makes evolutionary sense. The success of our species depends on it. The problem is, organizations can create situations […]
Don’t Get Stuck on the Path to Change – Leverage Your Human Constraint
“The only thing that does not require maintenance is obsolescence”, as W. Edwards Deming used to say. This is a fundamental truth: if we do not evolve, we regress. What makes everything more complicated is the pace at which we must evolve to survive. Technology speeds everything up, including the world of technology itself. Digital […]
The Transformational Method Behind an Economic Miracle We Can All Apply
“It would be better if everyone worked together as a system.” W. Edwards Deming These few, simple words reveal a mindset and worldview capable of transforming everything we do. Transforming what? A divisive, zero-sum-game way of doing business and managing/controlling people. If the tragedy of the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we […]
Goldman Sachs is WRONG About Managing Remote Work
Goldman Sachs wants its people back on the office five days a week. Thank you Janet Granger for sharing the article with us: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/goldman-sachs-wants-workers-in-office-5-days-a-week-and-other-companies-could-follow.html The CEO of Goldman Sachs even considers remote work an “aberration” and said “I do think for a business like ours which is an innovative, collaborative apprenticeship culture, this is not […]
Systemic Leaders Who Get the Big Picture – Here’s How
The City of Cambridge in Massachusetts has released a leadership profile for their next City Manager. We were thrilled to read the description in the Harvard Crimson: The City Manager will demonstrate an ability to work closely and creatively with the City Council, City departments, stakeholders, and residents,” the profile reads. “The ideal candidate will […]
