Systems Thinking The first challenge is developing a systems perspective and understanding of dynamic systems. We’ve been talking about this for over 50 years, yet we still don’t teach it in most business schools. We train people in business …
Three Keys to Success
Tenacity One of the most significant issues for success is tenacity. One of the things that we found is that designing organizations is, first of all, never done. Even organizations that develop a great design and create high performance, if they …
Benefits of Better Organization Design
Fewer Fires I think the first tangible benefit is you have fewer fires to put out. Often, we spend much of our executive time putting out fires. Working issues between those silos that got "mucked up" because we don't have a well-oiled process or …
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Stakeholders – What’s in it for them?
Chad - Like the title of your book, [Re]Create the Organization You Really Want, I see a key benefit is making the organization that you want to work in, and everyone else wants to work in too. WIIFM John - That's the "what's in it really for …
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Trial and Error
CHAD - I know you’ve listened to the podcast some, you know I love innovation quotes, so I asked you to bring one too. What’s the quote you have for us? JOHN - So I had to bring a different one this time, and I thought the one that fit what we …
Systems Thinking: Challenges and Potential – Interview
This video is an excerpt from the Business 901 Podcast that I did with host Joe Dager in 2016. In this video, we discuss some of the challenges associated with systems thinking, along with some thoughts on the potential of Big Data. We begin this …
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