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Feb 27 2018

Creating Sustainable Prosperity – a Practical Proposal

Creating Sustainable Prosperity – a Practical Proposal

Most people would like to be rich. After all, isn’t that the secret to happiness? The fact that in the wealthy First World increasing numbers of people struggle to get by, never mind thrive, is a major conundrum of our times. What we need to create is sustainable prosperity. What if there were something that […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: charity, sustainable prosperity, system

Feb 22 2018

Achieving Laser Focus in a Meeting the Systemic Way

Achieving Laser Focus in a Meeting the Systemic Way

I recently participated in a meeting for an innovative digital project where speed is now of the essence. We were able to surface assumptions that saved us endless conversations, weeks of delay and false starts based on misunderstandings. In that meeting I saw in action, yet again, the power of a Thinking Process Tool from the […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: laser focus, Meetings, Prerequisite Tree, systemic tools, Thinking Process Tools

Feb 20 2018

The Leaders We Need for Flatter Organizations

The Leaders We Need for Flatter Organizations

A leader is someone who connects with something deep inside you and brings out the leader in all of us. Ghandi, Churchill, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, these are some of the great leaders of our times. They inspired people to go beyond what they thought they were capable of to achieve something momentous for […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: Deming, Goldratt, leadership, Lubavitcher Rebbe, management, networks

Feb 16 2018

Empowerment – Making it Work Operationally

Empowerment – Making it Work Operationally

If you look up “empowerment” on Google there are over 100 million items. So what do we mean by empowerment and why is it such a tricky matter? What tools can we use to make sure empowerment is done more effectively at an operational level? In any organization, things need to get done and people […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: conflict cloud, empowerment, leadership, thinking process, Transition Tree

Feb 14 2018

Forget Perfection – the Goal is Quality

Forget Perfection –  the Goal is Quality

In our last post, we looked at eliminating toxic beliefs that choke organizations. In this post, we focus in on the toxic belief of wanting perfection, and how this relates to the serious business of Quality. Perfection – an unattainable goal One of the toxic beliefs people have is that perfection equals success.  This is […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: systems view of the world · Tagged: Deming, perfection, predictability, Quality, toxic belief

Feb 09 2018

How to Eliminate Toxic Beliefs that Choke Organizations

How to Eliminate Toxic Beliefs that Choke Organizations

An excellent article entitled ‘5 Toxic Beliefs that Ruin Careers‘ hits on a key issue in life and business, namely how our perceptions affect the way we think and act. In this post, we look at how the Decalogue Methodology can address toxic beliefs. Why do some succeed where others fail in the same circumstances? […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: assumptions, limiting beliefs, strategy, Thinking Process Tools, toxic beliefs

Feb 07 2018

Tackling our Cognitive Constraints to Get to Breakthrough

A major stumbling block to growth for organizations lies in their cognitive constraints. In other words, there are mental models, or, more simply, limiting beliefs that prevent us from seeing solutions. In the Decalogue approach, we have worked over the last 20 years with hundreds of top and middle managers to build custom made implementations […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: breakthrough, cognitive constraint, core conflict, innovation, Thinking Process Tools

Feb 01 2018

Using Constraints as a Leverage Point for Sustainable Growth

Using Constraints as a Leverage Point for Sustainable Growth

Whether you’re aware of it or not, every organization has a constraint, something that currently limits output. Correctly identifying the constraint  is the key to managing the entire organization in all its complexity with greater precision and predictability. As we have said many times, every human process, from getting to work in the morning to […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraint, leverage point, variation

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