In our last post, we looked at eliminating toxic beliefs that choke organizations. In this post, we focus in on the toxic belief of wanting perfection, and how this relates to the serious business of Quality. Perfection – an unattainable goal In his article entitled ‘5 Toxic Beliefs that Ruin Careers‘, Geoffrey James cites the […]

An excellent article appeared recently entitled ‘5 Toxic Beliefs that Ruin Careers‘. The piece hits on a key issue in life and business, namely how our perceptions affect the way we think and act. In this post, we look at how the Decalogue Methodology can address toxic beliefs. Why do some succeed where others fail […]

Why is it that we bump into the word ‘sustainable’ all over the place now? In this week’s post, Dr. Giovanni Siepe explains how sustainability is, in fact, about survival. Sustainability is a word that we often hear in conversations that involve environment, economy, organizations and many other aspects of our everyday lives. What is […]

A major stumbling block to growth for organizations lies in the ‘cognitive constraints’. In other words, there are mental models, or, more simply, limiting beliefs that prevent us from seeing solutions. In the Decalogue approach, we have worked over the last 15 years with hundreds of top and middle managers to build custom made implementations […]

By correctly identifying the constraint (bottleneck) of our organization, we can manage its inherent complexity with greater precision and predictability. As we saw in the last entry of this blog, every human process, from getting to work in the morning to sending a man to the moon, is affected by variation. In other words, a […]

A leader is somebody who has a theory; somebody who “owns” a body of knowledge that backs his claims that they can accomplish a transformation within their span of control. That transformation must be one of system optimization as a prerequisite for innovation; one in which competition is replaced by cooperation, where performances are managed […]

What is a sustainable enterprise, what does it takes to create it, and how can it be achieved and maintained? In an ideal world, every business would be sustainable, and therefore inherently a social enterprise. People would just realize it makes more sense for everyone in the long run. That’s clearly not the way things […]

What is is wrong with mainstream economic and financial models today? Continuing the series on a New Economics. Mainstream economic and financial models, the ones that currently rule the markets and determine value, have shifted their focus over the years from what is best for the society they should try to model to what is […]

Best efforts and hard work, not guided by new knowledge, they only dig deeper the pit we are in. The aim of this book is to provide new knowledge. Deming, The New Economics. Economics as a ‘political science’   A new knowledge was created by W. Edwards Deming for creating systems-based organizations. That knowledge calls […]