Norman Wolfe Appears on Compelling Change & Critical Mass Shows

Norman recently appeared on Jeanie Marsh’s internet radio show, Compelling Change where they discussed Quantum Leaders’ The Living Organization a new model that views organizations as living beings that grow, evolve, and create. Norman Wolfe is founder and CEO of Quantum Leaders and the author of the forthcoming book, “The Living Organization”. During the show, Jeanie [...]

The Living Organization™ Model – The Physics

The one thing we know about the universe that is uniformly agreed to by all disciplines is that everything in the universe is energy - and that energy can neither be created nor destroyed.  Therefore everything that happens in the world is the transformation of one form of energy into another. 
We know energy can [...]

Profit as a metric of the spirtual journy

In my last post I talked about the importance for the CEO and the board to increase the value of the firm, and that this should be a key focus of their responsibilities. I also state that the focus on value creation is perfectly consistent with the idea that business is a spiritual journey.
Value [...]

Big Teams - Barriers to Innovation?

In his recent post “Is Design a Team Sports?”, Idris Mootee discusses the role of the individual designer versus a design team. During that discussion he broaches the question as to whether large teams are barriers to innovation. I think that there is a semantic trap in the question, becuase it potentially blurs the [...]

Improving Your Company’s Velocity - Practice, Practice, Practice

Not only is it a way to get to Carnegie Hall, but focused, repeated practice of your firm’s best business processes is one of the ways to improve your overall velocity. In sports, it’s called establishing “muscle memory” by the repeated execution of a golf or tennis swing (for example), first working on the [...]

Speed - Life In The Business Fast Lane

At this week’s staff meeting, we discussed an emergent theme from our conversations with clients and other constituencies - that of improving the velocity of organizations in executing across a number of dimensions.
In the area of new product development, the ability of a firm to accelerate new product introduction ahead of competition and within window [...]