In his seminal book The New Economics, W. Edwards Deming said that the job of a leader is to accomplish transformation of his organization. What does that mean in terms of leadership? Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management, writes about Leadership. What is Transformation? The views, experience, analysis and practice expressed in this blog […]
Making the Goal Happen with the Transition Tree Tool
When we use the Transition Tree Tool to break our project down into actions, at every step we can scrutinize the effectiveness of our action, the validity of its logic and its coherence with the identified need. In this extract from the book Sechel: Logic, Language and Tools to Manage any Organization as a Network, Dr. Domenico […]
Gathering and Deploying Knowledge to Reach the Goal
When we face the ordeal of achieving an ambitious target we are often daunted by the ‘mountain’ we have to climb. How can we successfully overcome the obstacles? Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic and sustainable management, continues his series on the Thinking Process Tools from the Theory of Constraints. Deploying the strategy: the […]
Making Management Meaningful
Is there a way to foster smarter and more meaningful management? Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic and sustainable management, continues his series on the Thinking Process Tools from the Theory of Constraints. Triggering a superior level of consciousness In the past few posts we have looked at several Thinking Process tools which provide […]
What Do We Mean When We Talk About the Future?
The life of an enterprise rests firmly on its ability to pursue its vision of the future. How can we capture and implement that vision? Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic management, continues his series on the Thinking Process Tools from the Theory of Constraints. What is the future? Let’s allow ourselves a moment […]
Change: Intuition, Understanding and Knowledge
Continuing our series on change. We live in an extraordinarily complex, post-digital world, where interdependencies and interconnections multiply at an ever-increasing speed. The cause-effect relationships that govern the world as we experience it create a super intricate ‘network of networks’ and we have a very limited understanding of the underlying properties of these networks and […]
Network of Networks: Avoiding Catastrophe Through a Systemic Vision of Enterprises
We’re back for 2012, kicking off with a look at the ‘too big to fail’ fallacy from a scientific point of view this week. We’ll be following this up with a series on why people find it so hard to change, and a response to ‘No Fear’ author Pekka A. Vilijakainen and his invitation to […]
Destroying the markets with flawed assumptions
Today’s blog post is by team member Dr. Giovanni Siepe, a theoretical physicist by training and an expert in statistical methods for management. The Nobel Prize in Economics for 2011 went to Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims. The reason for assigning the Prize to Prof. Sargent is his model on cause and effects as applied […]
