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Crappy People versus Crappy Systems

2 October 2006

Bob Sutton author of “Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management” which I recommended in the past in an excellent post talks about Crappy People versus Crappy Systems which I have liberally included below:
“Simon Caulkin writes a management column in the Observer, a UK-based paper, and has written a couple [...]

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The Synthesizing Leader

11 March 2006

The Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas for 2006, provides a list of breakthrough ideas for 2006. One of the breakthrough ideas that stood out to me, is the breakthrough idea from Howard Gardner, titled “The Synthesizing Leader”, Howard states that:
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann once said to me that he thought the most valued [...]

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Systems Thinking as a Leadership Practice

14 January 2006

In the complex world in which we live leaders need to be able to think systemically. The concept of systems thinking was popularised by Peter Senge in his book The Fifth Discipline(add here), describes systems thinking as “a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns [...]

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Leadership from a Systems Perspective

26 November 2005

I thought that this was a great quote on leadership from a system’s perspective:
“From a systems point of view leadership is crucial because the most effective way you can intervene in a system is to shift its goals. You don’t need to fire everyone, or replace all the machinery, or spend more money, or even [...]

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