You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. I must confess that not being particularly academic in my own learning process, I found The Fifth Discipline a little dry. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. How they manage conflict.

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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. There is more to learn than any human can effectively process.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

What we want to do is improve the system to reduce the instance of poor results, not to inspect our unreliable process to remove bad results. I don’t want a surgeon to operate on me that doesn’t know anatomy. This is a nice short quote to emphasis the weakness of relying on inspection.

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Deming System Senge Seminar 28

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Larry : You know, it’s my belief, and it has also been my own experience, that there there is no place that servant-leadership cannot operate. To see that the way they’ve been functioning and operating is not a good way to be in relationship with other people.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. The world has become many-to-many , but we still operate with a one-to-many mindset. The process of unlearning has three parts.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Martin, quoting Peter Senge, refers to the problem that in situations of dynamic complexity, the links between causes and effects are “subtle.” They permit us to collect, process, store, and transform the new precious raw material of our age: information. This is our ability for integrative thinking.

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Senge Education Rogers Tools 8