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So as organizations grow in scale, the result, as many of us feel intuitively, is the concomitant loss of creativity, flexibility, curiousity, and humanity. Mega scale organizations are not, generally speaking, very nice places to work at, shop at, or do business with, are they? That is why they are always fighting their very own inertia. Like any ... See more
umair haque • Why We Need to Build Human-Scale Organizations
Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Managers and corporate executives can become too attached to a project and personalize it, and they are susceptible to the losses due to psychological factors
Brendan Moynihan • What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars
In 2004, I sat down in my boardroom with our strategy documents and started to dissect them. There were lots of familiar and comfortable terms. We had to be innovative, efficient, customer centric, web 2.0 and all that this entailed. Alas, I suspected these common “memes” were repeated in the strategy documents of other companies because I was pret... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
The mysterious life and death of Intrade’s CEO
fortune.com
Burt continues with the practical application of these ideas through the management of groups (i.e. organizational design) and integration of diversity (i.e. variety).
An organization can promote creativity by facilitating different ways of seeing things. Jean-Rene Fourtou, while he was CEO of the chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc, was once asked, “Why is... See more