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Train Wreck Management: Celebrating 180 Years of Command-and-Control Business Management
Happy 180th Birthday, Train Wreck Management! Yesterday, October 5, 1841 marked the birth of business bureaucracy when two passenger trains…
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To Decide is Human
The Importance of Effective Decision Making in Organizations
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Freedom and Accountability at Work Reloaded
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” — Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist and one of the…
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Guardians in the Shattered Glass
A Personal Story of Resilience and Survival
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Self-Management and Self-Organized Teams – Utopia or the Real Deal?
Hierarchical top-down management practices are becoming increasingly outdated. Self-management provides a solution to employee disengagement and…
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My Dinner With Peter: A Conversation With Peter Koestenbaum, PhD
This article originally appeared in Emergence, The Journal of Business Agility, Issue №3, June, 2021.
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The Self-Managing Board Of Directors
The Enron scandal and bankruptcy of the early 2000s was a financial debacle for thousands, sent former CEOs to prison, and led to the…
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Follow The Science To Self-Management
The true weight of bureaucracy’s heavy hand is being felt more keenly in organizations worldwide since the COVID-19 crisis and the rapid…
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