The current crises are driving home dramatically the realization that organizations need to make more and do more with the resources they have available. We will only achieve this if we are able to undertake a shift in the way we understand how to manage all the resources available in a sustainable way. It is […]
Three Steps Towards a New Economics for Sustainable Prosperity
2020 has been a year of unexpected losses and shocks in so many fields. How can we move forward in a way that can truly help us to rebuild without repeating old mistakes? How can we make sure that any “new solutions” introduced can be for the benefit of everyone and not just a tiny […]
Out of the Crisis
This week, the Intelligent Management team is in Italy for week 4 of total lockdown. We hope that all our subscribers and readers and their families are safe and healthy and have the opportunity to practice the social and physical distancing that is gradually producing its first results in Italy. May we all emerge from […]
Why Management Urgently Needs the Scientific Method
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Domenico Lepore’s new book ‘Moving The Chains’. Before I began working in the field of management, I was educated as a physicist. However, it is not necessary to be a scientist to appreciate that from Galileo Galilei and Newton onwards, all the things that we know (as opposed […]
Can Systemic Thinking Save the World?
What would happen if we all embraced a systemic vision of the world, if we all started thinking and acting with a systemic awareness, if we learned a method to connect the dots? What if we taught children and students to see opportunities that otherwise would not be visible, to anticipate and defuse negative implications? What if we […]
Transformation Towards Systemic Optimization
What is transformation of an enterprise, why do we need it and how can we achieve it? Dr. Domenico Lepore, Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. outlines how we can use our brains to make systemic change for a sustainable future. From exile to freedom: splitting the Red Sea Stupidity, as Dr. Deming has reminded us, is […]
Everyone Can Win: Why We Need A New Economics
In his monumental work ‘The New Economics’, W. Edwards Deming states: ‘It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management.’ Instead, many people perceive that corporations place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and […]
New Thinking Skills: Learn to Connect the Dots
What would happen if we all embraced a systemic vision of the world, if we all started thinking and acting with a systemic awareness, if we learned how to connect the dots? What if we taught children and students to see opportunities that otherwise would not be visible, to anticipate and defuse negative implications? What if we trained […]
The Secret of Sustainable Wealth? It’s Not What You Think
Most people would like to be rich. After all, isn’t that the secret to happiness? The fact that in the wealthy First World increasing numbers of people struggle to get by, never mind thrive, is a major conundrum of our times. What if there were something that every single one of us can do to help? […]
How Does the Market Work? (It doesn’t, at least, not all by itself)
The discussion about how the market works and behaves has been keeping economists busy for a long time. In this post, Dr. Giovanni Siepe takes a systems and complexity-based look at what is going on, and considers a different approach. Let’s follow the mainstream reasoning The contrast between those who think that the market works […]