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A New Story for a New Time
Throughout our existence, people have told stories as a way to understand our place in the universe and shape our action. When a radically…
Achieving Innovation by Way of Chaos
For centuries, discoveries in science have influenced the development of management theory. In the 1800s, business leaders applied Newton’s linear logic—output is directly proportional…
Scenarios of the Future: The Urgent Case for Sustainability
I was in grade school when the original Limits to Growth (Universe Books, 1972) was published. The environmental consciousness that blossomed in the early…
Empowering People to Learn with and from Each Other
When union steelworkers and management met at the Kansas City, Missouri, Armco plant to renew their labor contract, they found themselves negotiating more than…
Balancing in a Corporate Storm: Boeing’s Quantum Shift Learning Team
In 1994, Boeing’s CEO Phil Condit published an attention-getting article in the company’s internal management publication. In it, he challenged employees to shake off…
Holistic Change: Creating Organizational and Individual Alignment at Genuity
Conventional wisdom says that 70 percent or more of business change efforts, such as process reengineering, fail to meet their objectives. Why? Because these…
A California Dream Becomes a Nightmare
We’ve all heard the saying “Be careful about what you wish for; you just might get it.” In the case of the California power…
Blowing the Whistle on the Boss: Coaching, Not Refereeing, Your Employees
More than half of U. S. employees said their boss is a referee instead of a coach, according to a recent survey by Development…
Reader Response to “Scouting for—and Keeping–Talented Employees”
In a knowledge economy, a company’s success hinges on retaining and leveraging the skills and knowledge of its employees. Many organizations use financial packages,…
The Dynamics of Good to Great
If you haven’t read Jim Collins’s latest book, Good to Great (HarperBusiness, 2001), you should—the findings could change the way you do business once…