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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

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. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness. Is the team managing human capital or leading people?

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

. “Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered” (1982), coauthored with Robert Hayes, certainly did that, looking in detail at how manufacturers’ use of “hurdle rates” to judge investment possibilities led to systematic underinvestment in both plants and human capital. Sound familiar?