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In this view, business exists to serve human needs. Corporations
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
It is in the interstices of uncertainty that we encounter the need and find the freedom to forge our identity and our future.
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
To bring about better organizations, we need to risk speaking the truth of our soul and learn to navigate the conflicts that might ensue.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
mysteries as well. "In a business," he says, "no matter how good the process is, no matter how much you've got it down pat, no matter how much money you're making, how efficient, you have to always go back and say `Is there something fundamentally wrong with the way we're seeing the market?
Roger L. Martin • The Design of Business
Pick out the workers in your company whose knowledge or experience gets you from January to December. Which people could really hurt by going over to the competition? Your board of directors? Your vice-chairman? Hell, no! If they joined your competitor en masse, you’d be fourteen lengths ahead in a year, considering your lightened load, and your co
... See moreRobert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author of 31 books, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom
Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Workweek
After sharing the Visa story and underlying concepts, I told a small story. [...] Why then does such a system still lie dormant in the field of health? The answer is not complicated. Who would you trust to own and control such a system? [...] Only with the evolution of a chaordic organization in which all relevant and affected p
... See moreDee Hock • One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organizati…
How high you reach depends on your talents, your interests, your character, and the support you inspire from colleagues; it is no longer artificially constrained by the organization chart.