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Aug 31 2015

How Much Truth in ‘House of Lies’?

How Much Truth in ‘House of Lies’?

House of Lies, a riveting award-winning TV series, is a scathing indictment of the world of management consulting. When you strip away the hyper-real excess of lust, luxury, greed and vengeance, what truth, if any, can we find? Beyond the entertainment value, there seems little that is real in the world of management consultant star […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: complexity, consulting, Deming, Goldratt, house of lies, Systems Thinking

Aug 26 2015

Perception and Risk

Perception and Risk

Our brains really struggle to be rational. This is a big problem when it comes to management and making decisions, especially decisions about risk. What can we do about it? The improbability of probability The human mind is unable to process probability. It’s a scientific fact proved over the last 20 years in a slew of publications (and […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints

Aug 21 2015

Exploit the Constraint, Not Your People (sorry, Mr Amazon)

Exploit the Constraint, Not Your People (sorry, Mr Amazon)

 The recent articles and surrounding debate about how tough it is to work at Amazon relate to exploitation. There is only one kind of exploitation in organizations that is permissible and useful. And it doesn’t involve crying in the bathroom. Setting the goal Hearing about the bruising behaviour at Amazon, where people allegedly often cry at their […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Synchronized production, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraint, Goldratt, innovation, interdependencies, organization, Systems Thinking, theory of constraints, Thinking Process Tools

Aug 18 2015

Managing Risk through Constraints – Part 3 of a Deming-Goldratt take on Risk Management

Managing Risk through Constraints – Part 3 of a Deming-Goldratt take on Risk Management

Risk and Constraints In our last post we explained how management must involve the management of variation. Every single process, relationship and communication in our organization, whether we are aware of it or not, is affected by variation. If we ignore variation then we are not managing, and if we are not managing then “risk […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints

Aug 14 2015

Uncertainty and Understanding Risk

Uncertainty and Understanding Risk

A Deming-Goldratt take on Risk Management If we could predict the outcome of everything we do with mathematical certainty, then our lives would be much simpler. In reality, we exist within a complex web of interdependencies and such certainty is not possible. Hence, we live with uncertainty and its inevitable companion: risk. We perceive a […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: complexity, Deming, Goldratt, interdependencies, risk management, SPC, variation

Aug 10 2015

Risk: The Crippling Cost of Fear

Risk: The Crippling Cost of Fear

No one can deny that risk exists. It’s the potential to lose something of value. It would be irresponsible to ignore it. The question becomes, what kind of decisional practice and behaviors are operationally and economically effective when it comes to risk in organizations? Operating from fear A recent article in Mashable about Google+ is […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: complexity, conflict cloud, risk management

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