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innovation. An enterprise must not only create its future conditions of success but also must undo its previous ones.
Mark Schwartz • War and Peace and IT: Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
In many large organizations, the challenge is often diagnosed as internal. That is, the organization’s competitive problems may be much lighter than the obstacles imposed by its own outdated routines, bureaucracy, pools of entrenched interests, lack of cooperation across units, and plain-old bad management. Thus, the guiding policy lies in the
... See moreRichard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Systems leaders are trusted actors who help many people to collaborate to address wicked policy problems. These policy problems resist simple solutions by a few powerful actors in one center of government
II. Challenge
Systems change is disruptive to the usual ways of thinking and acting, which means that systems leadership is... See more
“Even today few businessmen understand that research, to be productive, has to be the 'disorganizer,'... See more
3 journal prompts + 3 Drucker quotes
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
When asked what critical questions a new senior executive at Lockheed Martin should ask, he replied: “Why is this the way it is? Do we understand why we got there?”
Bob Tiede • Leading with Questions: How Leaders Discover Powerful Answers by Knowing How and What to Ask
A deeper look into Alcoa’s story reveals that not only was it a story of cooperation and transformation but also of exhibiting all four parts of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge: the theory of knowledge as opportunities were identified and converted into nuggets of knowledge, variation to measure what they were learning, human psychology to
... See moreJohn Willis • Deming's Journey to Profound Knowledge: How Deming Helped Win a War, Altered the Face of Industry, and Holds the Key to Our Future
Systems Thinking
Giacomo Newsletter • 1 card
what constituted this prevailing system of management as Deming understood it, eventually settling on eight basic elements:1 Management by measurement: – Focusing on short-term metrics – Devaluing intangibles (“You can only measure 3 percent of what matters” – W.E. Deming) Compliance-based cultures – Getting ahead by pleasing the boss – Management
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