People prefer to reduce chaos and increase order. “Order” is equal to predictability, and predictability makes planning and execution easier. When humans turned from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the need for predictability and planning just increased over time. The industrial revolution only increased the need exponentially. But, as someone found out hundreds of years ago, there …
From interaction with many companies in the last year, we learned that people in organizations (regardless of the organization management style and the role of people in the organization) are not familiar with the management theory they are following. This model should help you to figure out your company management style base on three axes: …
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Most of us are following the analytical approach when we face complex problems. “Analytical approach” is the use of an appropriate process to break a problem down into the smaller pieces necessary to solve it. Each piece becomes a smaller and easier problem to solve (http://www.thwink.org/sustain/articles/000_AnalyticalApproach/index.htm). While this method might be beneficial for specific scenarios, …
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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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In business, like in life, many concepts exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites. For example, strategy-tactic, planning-reacting, governance-agility, Supply-demand, central-distribute, control-autonomy, etc. But, in reality, those opposites are two complementary parts that together create a whole. As depicts in the yin-yang principles, each one of the opposites contains some other, and the balance between them …