The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior. The leadership team often sees HR as a constraint on their operations or not effectively serving their needs.

System 52

System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The authors use numerous real-life examples to explain how to identify the sacred cows in an organization that are no longer effective and how to put them to pasture (their words, not mine). When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models.

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Review Senge Books Resistance 83

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The authors use numerous real-life examples to explain how to identify the sacred cows in an organization that are no longer effective and how to put them to pasture (their words, not mine). When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models.

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Review Senge Books Resistance 96

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Peter Senge. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. There is a proverb that says, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. It can get pretty complex.

Learning Organization 63

Learning Organization Organization Senge Learning-by-Doing 63

You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. But suffice it to say that in an age where shared leadership is, or will become, critical, the need to understand the dynamics and functional operation of teams is pretty great.

Learning Organization 56

Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management. A classic example was the old Bell System. A classic example of a new-world organization is AT&T Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications); which AT&T paid twelve billion dollars to acquire.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

This is even more true in services where often you can’t inspect to catch errors before the customer is disappointed (think of call centers for example). Evidence-based decision making is good, but just because you use data doesn’t mean it is effective (for example, the read bead experiment).

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Deming System Senge Seminar 28