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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Hierarchical top-down management practices are becoming increasingly outdated.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…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Oct 22, 2021
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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…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Oct 7, 2021
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June 2021
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.
Doug Kirkpatrick
Jun 29, 2021
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October 2020
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…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Oct 9, 2020
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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…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Oct 2, 2020
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September 2020
Self-Managed Education Is Here To Stay
TED Prize winner Sugata Mitra delivered a keynote at the 2015 International Conference & Exposition of the Association for Talent…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Sep 16, 2020
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Thanks for the kind words, Garry Turner!
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
Sep 4, 2020
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Taking The Sword To Bureaucracy
Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini have unsheathed their Excalibur for slaying bureaucracy. Their new book, Humanocracy[i], is about creating…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Sep 3, 2020
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August 2020
Climbing the Decision Tree Without Falling
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
Aug 21, 2020
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Powering The Atomic Organization
The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by wondering what would happen if you cut an apple into smaller…
Doug Kirkpatrick
Aug 3, 2020
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July 2020
Stop Wasting Your Life at Work
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
Jul 23, 2020
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May 2020
Mining Gold in the Workplace Marketplace
Scary terms like “future of work” and “self-management” are challenging for leaders already anxious over wrenching COVID-19 transformation…
Doug Kirkpatrick
May 27, 2020
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