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Category Archives: General MWT
Ideal Realised Strategies and Enterprise Architecture
There are two important themes in the MWT Model that are used to shift organisational habits. These are ‘pendulum arguments & something else’ and ‘ideal realised strategies’. Pendulum arguments are issues like the ‘centralise or decentralise’ debate that cause organisations … Continue reading
Dan Pink: Management is a television set (i.e. technology)
From Dan Pink’s TED talk on “The Surprising Science of Motivation”: “In the 20th century we came up with this idea of management. Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree it’s a television set. Okay? – … Continue reading
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David Heinemeier’s ‘Unlearn Your MBA’ talk at Stanford
This is nice. My favourite section: “There’s no management when we’re three people. There’s no management when we’re 15 people. We still don’t have any managers hired in 37signals. Every single one of us are producers. I’m still a producer. … Continue reading
Motivation
If an employee presses a green button and then an alarm goes off you’ll soon have a motivation problem. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
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We should probably all read “The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur” by Peter G. Klein
I owe some of my interest in organisations to a guy called Peter G. Klein. Over 10 years ago, when I first decided that there was going to be a shift in the skills required to be an effective manager … Continue reading
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Breaking down innovation accountabilities
I’m attending an ‘innovation workshop’ today. I’m looking forward to it but it also feels a little bit dirty. Innovation is important – but I’m not sure it can be managed directly. Management of anything politicises it; but with vague notions … Continue reading
Explicit collaboration
MWT Collaboration Architectures are a critical component of the MWT Model. In short, a collaboration architecture defines how individuals collaborate on a particular task. As with most architecture work, the focus is on what needs to be shared and what … Continue reading
Project Managers Should Not Fear the Baseline | CIO – Blogs and Discussion
There is some wisdom in Jim Vaughan’s article and the related comments: The poor performance of the project usually has less to do with the project manager or the project team and more to do with the systemic failures of … Continue reading
The Professional Mess
There is a very interesting interview with Dr. Thomas Dorman on the Lew Rockwell podcast entitled ‘The Medical Mess’. Dr. Dorman talks about how placing an intermediary between a professional (the doctor in this case) and their customer (patient in … Continue reading
Technocracy and Politicisation
I’ve mentioned one of my theories before: I have a theory that whenever a single specialisation becomes the dominate or controlling specialisation it turns the coordination into a technocracy. I might be using technocracy in the wrong sense but I’m … Continue reading
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