The skills-sets required to obtain seniority are so often decoupled from those skills-sets actually required to perform professionally at that level.
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Managing Messes
The inelegant facts of a manager’s burden can not be denied…
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Philosophy of Organisation
Much is made of the technology of business and indeed of the business of technology. It seems that a glaring omission in all of our digital adventures and (let’s face it – selfish) strivings is that of anything even vaguely resembling an adequate Philosophy of Organisation…
Even a foundationally exploitative business model finds itself entangled with, and dependent on, its object…
Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…
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Innovation
If innovation is in essence “useful creativity”, and creativity itself is perhaps at least partially defined as unguided, reflective practice – the best we can do is to massage the ambiguities and uncertainties into general directions…
The natural world around us is creative, complex, chaotic, dynamic and fundamentally self-organising. Any response to the world which hopes to successfully manage human beings and our many little worlds into anything resembling a sane organisational structure requires us to whole-heartedly embrace this complexity and chaos. Repetition and rote-learned, blindly regurgitative behaviours lead largely to […]
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