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Decisiveness

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Taking a stand. Is that what individual leadership is really all about?

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Sometimes business executives make what appear to me to be unhelpful distinctions between categories of their customers. The most obvious one is between individual end-consumers and other businesses - whether the latter are also end consumers or add value to the product - or even service - purchased. . .

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Star systems

Monday, July 28, 2008

A recent post about managing with ordinary managers like you and me attracted an interesting comment by leadership expert and author Ben Simonton about Peter Drucker’s legacy in this regard. In reply to my interest in hearing more about his concerns regarding Drucker’s influence, Ben said that he initially looked on him as a true business guru. However, with time and experience, he gained a perspective that dramatically altered this view. . .

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Problem solving where the problem is

Monday, July 21, 2008

The great management thinker Mary Parker Follett had much to say about the questions of decision making and the flow of power in organizations. Together, her ideas point to insights about organizational design that are without peer. Central to them is her concept of the “law of the situation.”

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Management from the top

Friday, July 18, 2008

There has been growing interest recently, albeit in fits and starts, in the capacity for self-management – even self-organization – of groups. As it happens, the most profound thinking on the topic was offered by the great Mary Parker Follett nearly a century ago, and it has scarcely been appreciated, much less meaningfully approached, by any of her successors. But they are intrigued, and seek to plumb the depths of the possibilities these concepts open up. . .

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