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...
View ArticleVicious 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...
View ArticleThe 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.”...
View ArticlePerspective 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...
View ArticleSpans 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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