Even Welsh recognizes The Living Organization
Well perhaps he didn’t exactly call it that, but in a recent article in Financial Time (3/12/2009) Jack Welch who is regarded as the “father of the shareholder value movement” said said it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains.”
What is he really saying about [...]
The Living Organization™ Model – The Spirit
The key to success is to maximize energy contribution while minimizing the loss of energy as it flows through the system on its way to becoming valued goods and services. But the model is not complete if we think of the flow of energy as just one frequency.
Like light passing through a prism the energy [...]
The creation of The Living Organization™ model
During my 35 plus years of leading organizations and helping other CEOs lead their organizations I have been seeking to understand and then explain what is required to successfully create sustainable growth. The Living Organization™ model is the culmination of that journey.
I have chosen to name my upcoming book “The Living Organization ™: the Physics [...]
Do we manage the system or the measurement system?
Today I was listening to the on-going debate of Executive Compensation and the struggle companies are having in this economy. There is so much talk these days about setting up pay for performance systems that reward growth and punish failure. In equal proportion there is talk about executives should be aligned with investors and hence [...]
Why the profit motif may have too many “unintended consequences”
I was just reading a New Your Time article titled “When Academia Puts Profit Ahead of Wonder” (Click on the title to read the article). It speaks eloquently about the problem of unintended consequences, the difficulty of being able to accurately predict all the results of our actions. Hence many of our very well intended [...]
The importance of Leadership style As President or as CEO
In a recent New Your Times article on the role Carolyn Kennedy played in the Democratic Vice President search team, she made an interesting comment that I thought merited commenting on.
“I’ve campaigned with him and seen him in large settings,” Ms. Kennedy said, “but to see the way he asked questions, listened, brought people [...]
Leadership lessons from the political scene
I just went to see the movie Swing Vote and while I would not say it was a great movie, it had a really important and significant message. Not only for the political season we are currently in but for all of us who are in a position of leadership.
In the movie, by a quirk [...]
Interdependence and leadership
Today’s New York Times headline reads, “Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization - Cheap oil, the lubricant of inexpensive transportation links, may not return soon, upsetting the logic of diffuse global supply chains”. In a number of other recent articles I am reminded that the demand for food in certain parts of the world is [...]
Change isn’t all that much fun
The other day I spent a half a day with a client going through a lessons learned session. We had just finished the first phase of pilot implantation for a new way of managing project implementations. By some measures the pilot was a “failure”, that is it did not achieve the desired outcome at the [...]
Where is Spirit in Life and in Business
Last week I was meeting with a group of CEOs, 8 of us, sharing some of our challenges and seeking advice and support. One of the men had just finished sharing about the challenges he is facing at home with his son, his own health, and his challenges with falling revenue at work. Listening to [...]
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