The Best Leadership Style - There Might Not be One
If you're the ambitious type, you've probably had your fair share of leadership books and management training. More than likely…
Organizations
Organizations are a world onto themselves. Leaders have to understand key frameworks in order to be effective.
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Why Netflix Leads with Context not Control
Control was the dominant management paradigm in early twentieth century industrial factories. A century later, in many modern workplaces it…
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MBWA : The Lost Art of Managing by Wandering Around
Managing effectively using data is all the rage today. But most of it is shallow "hard data". The real challenge…
Still In Search of Excellence — Attributes of the Best Run Companies
According to one estimate, around 12,000 business books are published every year. But back in 1982 this was not…
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Andy Grove on Balancing Top-down vs Bottom-up Approaches to Leadership
Ever wonder why that particular initiative of yours never got traction? Organizational politics kills more initiatives than people realize, and…
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Singular Big Bet vs Multiple Small Bets-Two Contrasting Approaches to Strategy
In their book, Business Experimentation, Rob James and Jules Goddard highlight two approaches to strategy that are diametrically opposite to…
John Doerr on OKR Hygiene
A successful [OKR] system needs only to answer two questions:
1. Where do I want to go? (The answer provides…
Metanoia-Learning as a Strategy
Organizational learning as one of the central pieces of strategy is still not as common as one would think.
It's…
Inherent Paradoxes in Management
Leadership and management can be mind-numbingly frustrating because of the inherent paradoxes and conundrums built into the nature of the…
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Types of Contradictions in Organizations
Trying to eliminate something that by definition cannot be eliminated, can be a source of constant frustration. Understanding the nature…
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On the Differences between Leaders and Managers
In modern knowledge work, leadership and management are more alike than different. The dichotomy between the two are more exaggerated…