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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

.” Functional managers and their teams are accountable, rated, and rewarded for doing their own jobs inside their siloed segment of the production, delivery, or support process. ” They have little control over their work processes, policies and procedures, technology, support systems, and the like.

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Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning

QAspire

I was fortunate that when I started leading teams in 2006, I started my blog to document my lessons and share them along. Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations. Little did I know then that I was stepping into something that would totally transform how I think about leadership and learning.

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5 Human-Centric Skills to “Flex” for Ever-Changing Workplaces

Experience to Lead

With increased automation and advanced technology (including artificial intelligence), skills that were once considered critical competencies are often nullified within five years. Remote work and the pandemic have also shifted our methods of communication and collaboration, causing teams that didn’t adjust well to be less effective.

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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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The Energy Efficiency of Trust & Vulnerability

Mills Scofield

To create great music you need an ensemble — a trio, quartet, basically a team of players with complementary strengths, skills and vulnerabilities and a willingness to listen to each other and a common goal. Peter Senge ); use the same language (e.g., No instrument can play everything. Build on the same shared mental models (e.g.,

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom. Community matters.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

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. On the job, people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom.

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