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The Downside of the “Prevent Defense”
In the American game of football, there is a strategy that teams often employ in the fourth and last quarter—the “prevent defense.” If their…
Strategic Alliances That Succeed
The compelling question on most business managers’ minds today is how to gain market advantage. How can we take advantage of technological advances? How…
Reader’s Response to “The Dynamics of Good to Great”
Ifrequently work with clients who want to improve their company’s performance—they essentially seek to set into motion the “Flywheel” of ever-increasing success that Jim…
Breaking the Organizational Code of Silence
We’ve all heard the adage “Silence is golden,” but how many of us realize the potentially negative impact that following this old saw can…
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…
The Land Mines of Change
Consider an all-too-familiar vignette that probably occurs daily in organizations around the world. This scenario has been referred to as the “Catch-22” of change.
Shifting the Unwritten Rules of Organizational Behavior
As many organizations are discovering, sustainable corporate change can be elusive. Why? Because we often fail to ensure that our organization’s “unwritten rules” the…
Building a Company of Citizens
In this age, when many voters I are attracted to political candidates from the business world who vow to run government like a corporation,…
Taking a Systems View: A Reflection
Over many years of working with systems thinking as a student, manager, and consultant, I have developed an increasing respect for and fascination with…
The Inescapable Need to Change Our Organizations: An Interview with Peter Senge
The Systems Thinker (TST): What are the two or three new big ideas for management in the 21st century? Peter Senge: Organizations will have to…