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Unlocking Organizational Routines That Prevent Learning
Organizational life is awash with incongruities. In one organization the CEO told the world, “Product X is our top priority,” even as the development…
Let the Games Begin!
When my nephew was eight weeks old, my brother began playing a game with him. He would slowly open and close his hand while moving…
An Organizational View from the Bottom Up
New World Dictionary defines “manage” as “to train (a horse) to go through its paces, to manipulate, control the behavior and or movement of.” “Support”…
Management Flight Simulators: Flight Training for Managers (Part I)
Imagine you’re leaving on a six-hour flight from Boston to Los Angeles. As the plane pulls away from the gate, the pilot comes on over…
Dialogue: The Power of Collective Thinking
The way people talk together in organizations is rapidly becoming acknowledged as central to the creation and management of knowledge. According to Alan Webber,…
A Company That Refuses to Gauge Its Success Through Growth
There’s an astonishing page in the latest Patagonia sports clothing catalog, written by Yvon Chouinard, president of Patagonia. It tells why he’s decided that…
Saturn Strains Under Success
Saturn, General Motors’ bold experiment in car manufacturing, is running into troubled times. Revolutionary no-haggle prices and a strong reputation for quality made Saturn…
Paradigm-Creating Loops: How Perceptions Shape Reality
We are in the midst of an unprecedented upheaval — a fundamental shift in the structure and nature of business. According to Fortune magazine,…
Learning to Learn: A New Look at Product Development
At Ford Motor Company, we know how to design cars. We have the engineering, the technology, the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools. But we haven’t…
Using “Shifting the Burden” to Break Organizational Gridlock
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote American poet Robert Frost in his poem “Mending Wall.” As the speaker and his neighbor…