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McKinsey • Getting organizational redesign right
Ray Stata, former CEO of Analog Devices and founder of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, wrote that “One of the highest leverage points for improving system performance, is the minimization of system delays.”
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
ENTRY POINT #5: STARTING AT THE TOP
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
S1:E7 | Culture Becomes Experience — Breakthrough Builders
breakthrough-builders.comAndy Grove’s quantum leap was to apply manufacturing production principles to the “soft professions,” the administrative, professional, and managerial ranks. He sought to “create an environment that values and emphasizes output”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
the drive toward increased efficiency has created company cultures that strive for predictability.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
The best leaders create, sustain, and improve their organizations’ social circuitry,* the overlay of the processes, procedures, routines, and norms that enable people to do their work easily and well. While individual specialists are focusing their attention on the problems immediately in front of them, this social circuitry establishes the pattern
... See moreSteven J. Spear • Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification
To get leverage this way, you first need to create a flow chart of the production process as it exists.