Pinboard links for December 16th, syndicated automagically: Is Your Organization Fit for Heretics? | Management Innovation eXchange – Why indeed? Because too many people still work in organizations that resemble the IBM of their grandfather's (or great-grandfather's) day–organizations designed to exert tight control at the expense of autonomy, to maximize compliance and conformance over individual [...]
To mark his recent death, Peter Day revisits an interview he did 2 years ago with Russell Ackoff, Professor Emeritus of the Wharton School in Operations Research and Systems Theory. His f-Laws expose the common flaws in both the practice of leadership and in the established beliefs that surround it Get the mp3 here, subversive [...]
Here’s a 7 minute clip on complexity in organizations (from a presentation by Holger Nauheimer at the International Association of Facilitators conference, Atlanta, GA, April 12, 2008): An introduction into why complexity matters for 21st century organizations; some aspects of how we can deal with issues of complexity in organizational change: The embedded slides can’t [...]
Organisationspathologien aus anderer Perspektive, ein Podcast von SWR 2 Geld, Markt, Meinung “Krank durch Arbeit?” (mp3) : Immer mehr Arbeitnehmer bleiben wegen Ängsten, Depressionen oder Stresskrankheiten ihrem Arbeitsplatz fern. In den Statistiken der Krankenkassen spiegelt sich diese Entwicklung wider: Als einzige Krankheitsart nehmen seit Anfang der 90iger Jahre die psychischen Störungen zu. Tendenz: weiter steigend. [...]
Jeffrey Phillips calls for more adaptive structures ready for business model innovation … [we need to] create a corporate culture and bureaucracy that enables reorganization rather than inhibits or constricts it [...] if it seems likely that rapid change and tough competition are likely, why not create an organization that is more nimble and can [...]
Via Bernd Röthlingshöfer bin ich auf Christoph Hörls Facharbeit zu Google aufmerksam geworden. Er schreibt: Wer in gut verständlicher und knapper Form mal wissen möchte, wer hinter Google steckt, was der Page Rank ist oder was es mit der 20-Prozent-Klausel auf sich hat, dem ist die Lektüre sehr zu empfehlen. Stimmt, vor allem der erste [...]
Via Soulsoup: “Everything you wanted to know about Producing Open Source Software, from economic-political-business context to copyright issues via successful strategies to implement a good project plan and links to tons of free resources, you can get it all here”: Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel: Producing Open Source Software is a book about [...]
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