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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

Deming Institute

From Tacoma, we headed to our last stop, San Francisco, where the timing worked well for me to attend a second conference, “Teaching for Intelligence,” with Peter Senge , author of The Fifth Discipline , as the opening keynote speaker. 20 to 25 years of efforts to transform the systemic nature of business operations….

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions. What would happen if no decision is made?

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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