Super article in HBR Nov-2015 by Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats: Why organizations don’t learn. Our traditional obsessions – success, taking action, fitting in, and relying on experts – undermine continuous improvement Some highlights … Bias towards success Challenges: Fear
This may be good news to some. To change your ways or working and improve your innovation powers, requires more than endorsing sandals and Hawaii shirts in the corporate environment. It’s about finding news ways of acting that don’t get
In any system that doesn’t make sense you will find a black market for common sense. People who try to get the job done, not because of the system, but inspite of the system. A shadow image of this is
This is a true story. Little Peter was writing his list of wishes for Christmas and made sure that everything he could possibly imagine and some more got onto the list. In good time Peter mailed his list to Father
Imagine you complete a project. Now think of every decision you made and action you took during the project. Think of it as a ‘string of pearls’ – what actually happened. Then think of all possible combinations that could have
Open question to Mary Poppendieck Dear Mary, we met at a fish-bowl at XP11 in Rome and discussed team size. I bravely suggested 7 as the ideal number. You gave me a hard time and argued that the ideal was