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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” 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.

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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

The three of you had a common goal – a great performance. The more information and/or experience we have, the fewer buffers we need around our decisions and the more we can focus on the scope and achievement of our goals. Peter Senge ); use the same language (e.g., Being vulnerable is a way to preserve energy.

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. “Enjoy, learn, unlearn and reframe and, as always, if you need even more details, reach out and enquire.” Listen to their discussion here !

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Procter & Gamble and Innovation in Asia

Harvard Business Review

It has publicly announced goals to reduce its dependence on petroleum and to increase its use of recycled and renewable materials. He noted how Singapore Agency for Science, Technology & Research ( A*STAR ) has told P&G that sustainability is "no longer a program, it is part of how we do our work.". The Red Dot."

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Martin, quoting Peter Senge, refers to the problem that in situations of dynamic complexity, the links between causes and effects are “subtle.” on instruments and tools that a dynamic information and communication technology sector, drawing on all the research that preceded and accompanies it, has bestowed on us.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Avoid numerical goals. He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Senge, too, wondered why these rare examples of Deming in action aren’t proliferating. Eliminate MBO.

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