Your focus is more scattered now. This appears to be a fact. Whatever you are trying to achieve in your business or personal life is being undermined by a lack of focus. It’s not your fault. An article this week in Fast Company states that our attention has been “stolen by big and powerful forces”. […]
The Biggest Bottleneck for Business Today is Management
Why is management the problem? Because the scenario in which companies operate is radically different from even 20 years ago. Digital technology and the complexity of a global environment impact every business in every sector. Human expectations and wants have evolved so that simple, top-down interactions are insufficient. And yet management style, methods and […]
Avoiding Compromise with a Win-Win Solution
I recently re-posted on LinkedIn something from Goldratt Consulting with a quote from Dr. Goldratt: “Our fear that conflicts will lead to a tug of war diverts management attention to constantly struggle with unacceptable compromises.” This is part of the introduction to a book Dr. Goldratt was working on called ‘The Science of Management’ before […]
A Systems Approach to Change – The Thinking Processes from the Theory of Constraints
As a new season begins, we are reminded of the constancy of change. How can we manage change in an organization, including the emotions involved, in a way that is structured, monitorable and effective? This post is by Founder of Intelligent Management Inc. Dr. Domenico Lepore. The Thinking Processes from the Theory of Constraints (TOC) […]
Beyond Our Senses – What CEOs and Leaders Can Learn from Pilots
It’s been a while since many people have been on a plane, but now that some international restrictions are being lifted, it’s time to start planning trips again where they are strictly necessary. The same goes for the team at Intelligent Management. Like so many companies, we have shifted our activity online and it has […]
Leadership Thinking and our Human Constraint
Our lives today are filled with unprecedented levels of rapid change and complexity. Unintended consequences can quickly emerge from inadequate leadership thinking, and we are living with these every day. So we have an urgent need to learn to think in a “joined-up” way. The definition of ‘joined-up thinking” is: “thinking about a complicated problem in […]
Rethink and Reorganize: A Reliable Process to Rise Above Your Competitors
We live with such uncertainty today that only one thing is sure: change and adaptation are inevitable and what brought success to businesses in the past may no longer be valid. Trying constantly to “keep up” is exhausting. There is a much better alternative that is, instead, invigorating. Rather than keep up, businesses can step […]
Who Should Work from Home?
A recent article in a magazine for CEOs posed the question, who should work remotely? “As we slowly emerge from the pandemic and the resulting stay-at-home orders, organizational leaders need to make difficult decisions on who will—and won’t—be required to return to the office. With study after study showing that most employees are not interested […]
Future Proof Your Organization with a Systems Based Approach – 45 Easy Pieces
This week at Intelligent Management we are focusing on getting ready to launch something very special at the end of May. Over the last year, since the COVID epidemic began, we made an extra effort to publish material regularly to help people adopt a systems view as a way of moving beyond the crisis. Instead […]
Time for a Complete Rethink of the Role of Management
As we have declared in several publications over the years, our goal at Intelligent Management is the transformation of the prevailing, silo-based, organizational design and management style into one of whole system optimization. The month of May is an important one for all of us at Intelligent Management. It marks the 25th anniversary of the […]