Economic growth in the last two centuries has been based upon the concept that business and the economy are a ‘perfectible machine’, which with ever-more finely calibrated tweaks will increase prosperity for the majority (the middle-classes) as well as the poor and the rich. In the four decades since the US bicentennial in 1976 (his […]
Book Review Subject: Corporate Strategy
Humanocracy
Bureaucracy according to the authors 'grants excessive credence to the views of precedent-bound leaders, discourages rebellious thinking, creates lags between sense-and-respond, frustrates the rapid deployment of resources, discourages risk-taking, politicizes decision-making, undermines frontline capability and blinds silo-dwelling leaders to new opportunities,' and yet it is very firmly embedded. So how do you get rid of […]
Align
In a leadership world that is increasingly focused on the idea that leaders need to be focused on the people (a view Ideas for Leaders is generally in strong support of), Trevor throws a rock in the pond, and causes some necessary ripples (dissenting voices is something leaders need to listen out for). He posits that Enterprise […]
Prediction Machines
The authors premise is that, for the moment, and that will be some good few years into the future too, AI can be simply viewed as bringing statistical analysis to businesses very cheaply. Whereas a handful of years ago only the largest organizations could afford to crunch collected data on any scale, and loop back […]
Digital Transformation
As with most technology issues that organizations grapple with today, the 'technology' is the least of the problem – it is how we, as humans, relate to it and collaborate, or not, with using it that causes the problems. Herbert's contention is that 'digital transformation' is essentially a mindset change. Do people in your organization […]