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Renewal and Resistance

I was thinking about the critical mass required for the spread of a good idea in an organization. Sadly, the conclusion I come to is that the deck is stacked in favour of the status quo and of...

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Vicious Cycle

At the end of my last post I referred to a vicious cycle of time demands on senior executives. Here’s an attempt at a graphical explanation.   The theory is: A high degree of centralization means that...

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The Republic of Letters

The Republic of Letters “is the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th century in Europe and America. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of Age of Enlightenment.”...

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Perspective on Employee Investments

One of the most obvious responses to an economic downturn (or even a drop in sales), for an organization, is to weather the storm by cutting costs. In the U.K., a survey found that half of large...

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Spans of Control

A couple thoughts about team size, or span of control: I started a career-resembling job almost four years ago. Since then, I’ve worked on six different teams (For the record, I’ve only changed jobs...

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