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Orange Organizations don’t always deliver on the promise of management by objective. The fears of the ego often undermine good intentions. Take the notion that decisions need to be pushed down to foster innovation and motivation: this makes perfect sense for leaders operating from Achievement-Orange. But in practice, leaders’ fear to give up contro
... See moreFrédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
According to Shewhart’s Statistical Process Control, managers shouldn’t waste their time trying to fix every single problem. Instead, they should identify which ones can be predicted and fix them. Identify the ones that will likely never happen again and don’t make knee-jerk decisions. As a result, managers can spend their time on things they can c
... 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
It doesn’t take long for 3 priorities to become 10. It doesn’t take long for 2 people in a meeting to become 8. It doesn’t take long to move from people making decisions to committees.
The most productive organizations and people spend a lot of energy fighting what fe... See more
Farnam Street • The Next Corner
Idealized organizations are not perfect. They are perfectly pathological. So while most most management literature is about striving relentlessly towards an ideal by executing organization theories completely, this school, which I’ll call the Whyte school, would recommend that you do the bare minimum organizing to prevent chaos, and then stop. Let
... See moreVenkatesh Rao • The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)
Today, leaders wait until there’s a problem before they fix it. This approach must be replaced with a process of continuous learning, continuous improvement, continuous adaptation, and continuous change.
John 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
the problem seems to come…
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Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
You want problems solved by the right people who can do it most effectively.
John Seiffer • Output Thinking: Scale Faster, Manage Better, Transform Your Company
Why are organizations, everywhere, political, commercial, and social, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?
Why are individuals, everywhere, increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they are part?
Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?