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 […]
Designing a Desirable Future for an Organization: The Future Reality Tree
How can we transition from a set of solutions to a reliable path to create our desired future reality? Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic management, continues his series on the Thinking Process Tools from the Theory of Constraints. Bridging the Present with a Desirable Future In our previous posts, we looked at the […]
Challenging the Mental Models of Organizations with the Core Conflict Cloud
How do we free ourselves of mental models to get to our goal of breakthrough? Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic management, continues his series on the Thinking Process Tools from the Theory of Constraints. In our previous post we summarized how we build the Core Conflict in an organization. (See How Control Vs. Vision […]
How Control Vs. Vision Leads to Breakthrough with the Core Conflict Cloud
How do we create a breakthrough when our need for control and our need for vision drive us into a core conflict? Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic management, continues his series on the Thinking Process Tools from the Theory of Constraints. Since our childhood we have been immersed in a field of forces […]
Connection and Transformation with the Conflict Cloud Tool
Dr. Domenico Lepore, international expert in systemic management, offers unique insight into the Conflict Cloud tool, a systemic Thinking Process Tool from the Theory of Constraints. Dr. Lepore developed the Decalogue Management Methodology together with Oded Cohen. Virtually any situation of blockage can be portrayed in terms of conflict. There are at least three main […]
Separating Wants from Needs – Tools For Thinking Systemically
Embracing conflicts and separating wants from needs are how we actualize change and breakthrough. International expert on systemic change, Dr. Domenico Lepore, shares his insights after many years of guiding corporate and individual change through the Thinking Process Tools. Embracing conflicts In virtually every culture I had the opportunity to come in touch with, the […]
