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circular management.”

David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

In the template, the growth process is usually shown as a virtuous reinforcing loop on the left. The limiting process is usually shown as a balancing loop on the right, which reacts to imbalances imposed on it by the growth loop. The balancing loop is also driven to move toward its target—a limit or constraint on the whole system, difficult to see

Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization

a highly cited 2000 study from Cornell University discusses the correlation between task conflict (disagreements about decisions) and relationship conflict (emotional friction) in teams. Task conflict is healthy and is important to get to the best decisions, but it is highly correlated with relationship conflict, which leads to poorer decisions and

Jonathan Rosenberg • Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

most significant management variable to be disclosed by the previous analysis is the choice of the mix of projects undertaken, and the implications this has for the (average) project team (i.e., leverage) structure.

David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm

Creating Stability Is Just as Important as Managing Change

Ashley Goodall hbr.org

When there are many conflicting desires, and conflicting theories about how they can be met, the consequences are indecision and myopic vacillation among various half measures. Creating effective strategy in such situations is extremely difficult or impossible. The central challenge is not the outside world but the conflicting mix of values and pur

Richard Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

Strategy becomes the tracing of effects , a process of watching how meaning is assembled by human and nonhuman actors alike. Strategy, in this light, does not seek to name “culture” or “emotion” as if they were causes but instead just asks how those terms get produced and by what configuration of systems and constraints they come to matter at all.

Reassembling the Strategist

As one discovers the factions and the conflicts among students, the work of leadership is to keep the heat of the conflict within a productive range—a key feature of what is referred to in this approach as orchestrating the conflict.

Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World

most government agencies, public schools, religious institutions, and the military are run based on Conformist-Amber principles and practices.