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Dec 21 2015

It’s a Wonderful Life – If You Change Your Thinking

It’s a Wonderful Life – If You Change Your Thinking

In our blog we talk about issues that affect organizations. However, those organizations are made up of people in families, and at this time of the year people enjoy family time but many suffer the repeated frustration, hard work and negative emotional undertow of the “festivities”. Does it have to be that way? It doesn’t […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: change, innovation, Systems Thinking

Dec 02 2015

Systems Thinking in a Milan Taxi

Systems Thinking in a Milan Taxi

The World Expo took place in Milan this year and brought hundreds of thousands of people to visit the city.  It’s a city I lived in for many years so I know its appeal and pitfalls well. While taking a ride to the airport in Milan for a London flight this week, a chat with […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: ecosystem, greed, Milan, Systems Thinking

Nov 20 2015

Creativity – the Opposite of Reliability and Predictability?

Creativity – the Opposite of Reliability and Predictability?

It is a week where a European country, France has declared it is at war. Elsewhere in the world just recently thousands of people argued on social media about a Starbucks cup. It’s hard at times to keep a sense of balance and where our attention needs to be. So much noise and so much […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Synchronized production, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: Creativity, Quality, statistical process control, variation

Nov 05 2015

Uncertainty and Choice: Quantum Mechanics for Leaders and Managers

Uncertainty and Choice: Quantum Mechanics for Leaders and Managers

Let’s be honest with ourselves: we don’t like uncertainty and we don’t like variation in everyday life. However, we can, and we must, live with both. But we can do much more than just put up with them when we understand them better and new science helps leaders and managers do just that. Making decisions and […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: complexity, Decision making, quantum mechanics, SPC, theory of constraints, variation

Oct 30 2015

How to Grow a Startup into a Sustainable Company

How to Grow a Startup into a Sustainable Company

Startups abound. There is no lack of imagination, determination, and even funding for a good idea. The problem becomes, what happens next? The mortality rates of startups is high. We were asked, how can you keep startups alive so they grow to the a next, bigger and economically sustainable phase, especially given the complexity of […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: complexity, interdependencies, organization, startup, Systems Thinking, Thinking Process Tools

Oct 13 2015

Four Fundamental Strands of Knowledge for Managers and Leaders

Four Fundamental Strands of Knowledge for Managers and Leaders

Although the majority of organizations are divided up into functions and silos (and suffer every day from the ill-effects of that) they are in fact one system. They simply do not see it because of an out of date approach to management based on vertical hierarchy and local optima. What do we mean when we […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, interdependencies, organization, systemic management, theory of profound knowledge, transformation, variation

Oct 06 2015

Why Doesn’t Increased Effort Equal Increased Productivity?

Why Doesn’t Increased Effort Equal Increased Productivity?

People work hard when they care about achieving results in their organization. Sometimes very hard. And yet, why is that no matter how much extra effort they may make, this doesn’t always translate into extra results? In some cases, paradoxically, the harder people work the further they seem to be from where they expect. What’s […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Synchronized production, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, Goldratt, interdependencies, organization, productivity, Systems Thinking, variation

Sep 24 2015

Pride Comes Before a Fall – A (Systemic) Lesson For Leaders and VW

Pride Comes Before a Fall – A (Systemic) Lesson For Leaders and VW

Being conceited can come from occupying a position of power. It’s easy to convince yourself that if you are in the driving seat it’s because you deserve it, because you are intrinsically better than others. This is a vicious circle of wrong assumptions. If you are rich, you are better than the poor (even though you […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: complexity, interdependencies, leadership, organization, servant leader, Systems Thinking, VW

Sep 18 2015

Strategy Failure: Why We Need A Whole New World

Strategy Failure: Why We Need A Whole New World

In a recent article about strategy and execution, Roger Martin writes in the Harvard Business Review: “To fix our problem with strategy failure, we need to stop thinking in terms of the brain-to-body metaphor. Instead, we should conceive of the corporation as a white-water river in which choices cascade from the top to the bottom.” […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: complexity, Harvard Business Review, interdependencies, strategy, Systems Thinking, transformation

Sep 12 2015

From Silos to System: the New Organization for Complexity

From Silos to System: the New Organization for Complexity

Why are organizations still plagued with all the drawbacks of silos? Because they still adopt a worldview that is out of synch with our times. In order to navigate complexity, organizations must shift from the obsolete, Newtonian worldview of individual, separate and hierarchical parts. What is the direction they need to adopt? Working towards a […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: complexity, Deming, Goldratt, interdependencies, organization, Systems Thinking, theory of constraints

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