As humans, we are often sure that we’re right and others are wrong. That’s because we all suffer from cognitive bias. At least two people got a Nobel prize for proving to the world that we jump to conclusions and act without thinking most of the time. We do it based on the subconscious. Thousands […]
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If you spend well worth time using the tools of systems thinking to model any company, business or non-profit organization (with over ten people). You’ll find two main subsystems that compose the system you are analyzing. One subsystem is the management system, the variation of scientific management, administrative and bureaucratic management theories that still dominate
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Multi-Functional Teams is one of the hardest principles to implement and follow. For many years we were taught that specialization and grouping specialists to dedicated groups are the best approach to run a business. Department (specialists dedicated groups) is the most common way to group people in organizations. But, we all know that those departments are silos (or
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According to the Oxford dictionary, the term Hierarchy has several meanings, but two of them are relevant to this post. 1) A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. 2) An arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness. The second definition
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Science evolves over the years from the Newtonian deterministic approach to non-deterministic non-linear approaches such as quantum physics, chaos mathematics, and complex systems. Those theories have a contribution to science and our lives. Although the new sciences are negating the old ones, all of them are part of the whole we call science. Each of those
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