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Hierarchical top-down management practices are becoming increasingly outdated. Self-management provides a solution to employee disengagement and…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Happy 180th Birthday, Train Wreck Management! Yesterday, October 5, 1841 marked the birth of business bureaucracy when two passenger trains…
Doug Kirkpatrick

June 2021

This article originally appeared in Emergence, The Journal of Business Agility, Issue №3, June, 2021.
Doug Kirkpatrick

October 2020

The Enron scandal and bankruptcy of the early 2000s was a financial debacle for thousands, sent former CEOs to prison, and led to the…
Doug Kirkpatrick
The true weight of bureaucracy’s heavy hand is being felt more keenly in organizations worldwide since the COVID-19 crisis and the rapid…
Doug Kirkpatrick

September 2020

TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra delivered a keynote at the 2015 International Conference & Exposition of the Association for Talent…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Thanks for the kind words, Garry Turner! And for the hat tip about “Lead from the Heart”… I’m feeling like this human-centric movement is picking up…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini have unsheathed their Excalibur for slaying bureaucracy. Their new book, Humanocracy[i], is about creating…
Doug Kirkpatrick

August 2020

AES was a company ahead of its time. Founded in 1981 by Roger Sant and Dennis Bakke, by 1999 it operated 90 electricity plants in 13…
Doug Kirkpatrick
The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by wondering what would happen if you cut an apple into smaller…
Doug Kirkpatrick

July 2020

Time is our most important non-renewable resource. Once a year has passed, it belongs to history. The choices we made as individuals about…
Doug Kirkpatrick

May 2020

Scary terms like “future of work” and “self-management” are challenging for leaders already anxious over wrenching COVID-19 transformation…
Doug Kirkpatrick
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