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Structure eats Culture for Breakfast! “I make all our managers read The Lean Startup,” says a Wall Street Journal ad quoting Jeffrey Immell the CEO General Electric for Eric Reis’s book. Well, Mr. Immell, I would recommend that unless you change structurally, it is likely that your managers have just read a fiction book. It Read More …
and more like an organism? “Or even better, what if we compared the company with other large, complex human systems, like, for example, the city?” says Dave Gray in his new book, The Connected Company. In the podcast we discuss this type of company and investigate what Dave calls pods. We even take a little Read More …
(ASQ) Lean Enterprise Division will host the webinar Lean Service Design: Closing the Gaps between Perception and Reality on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST. 80% of Companies believe they deliver a Superior Service, only 8% of their Customers agree Lean Service Design changes the way you think about business. No Read More …
In one of my favorite books,The Path of Least Resistance for Managers author Robert Fritz states: People are fond of saying, “Well, that’s our culture.” They seem to think that the cultural norms and habits of the organization are causal. But what creates the cultures? The underlying structures people are in. In fact, it is Read More …
In my own little celebration this week for the book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, I am doing a series of blog post and offering comments on how this book has influenced my thoughts. This book Read More …
This week was a milestone for the book, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison. It was released as a paperback. I want to take a moment and congratulate the authors and pass on a recommendation for the Read More …