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  • January 3, 2024

    60 Seconds with Amy Edmonson: Psychological Safety

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 24, 2023

    The Cost of Complexity

    “You can’t solve a truly novel problem, like building organisations that are fully human, with fossilised principles .” (Gary Hamel: Humanocracy) In a sequence of recent posts promoting his book Humanocracy: Creating Organisations as Amazing as the People Inside Them…

  • December 24, 2023

    60 Seconds with Russ Ackoff: The Purpose of a System is What it Does!

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 24, 2023

    60 Seconds with Mike Jackson: Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 23, 2023

    60 seconds with Dr. Heidi Gardner: Smarter Collaboration

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 20, 2023

    60 Seconds with Dave Snowden: The Cynefin Framework on Complexity

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 20, 2023

    60 Seconds with Prof. Richard Jolly: Handling Complexity

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 19, 2023

    60 Seconds with Steve McConnell: The 10 Deadly Sins of Estimation

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 19, 2023

    60 Seconds with Roger Martin: Strategy and Figuring out the Human System

    A short video clip with Alex’s commentary.

  • December 1, 2023

    Strategy Deployment and OKRs

    Hoshin Kanri is a term from Lean Management for Strategy Deployment and is a strategic planning process that aligns an organisation’s functions with its strategic objectives. OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) have their origins in Intel, popularised by Google via…

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