A recent discussion on LinkedIn in the Harvard Business Review Group asked, “Wouldn't it be great if managing a team was as easy as herding sheep?” Several comments opposed the comparison of people to sheep but there are important [...]
"Scientific knowledge, originally seen to make possible the prediction and manipulation of nature, appears now to be pointing us toward a new relationship with the natural world based on sensitive observation and participation, rather than control." Brian Goodwin Over the [...]
In her McKinsey Quarterly article, “Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism,” Shoshana Zuboff writes, “What’s the difference (between innovations and mutations)? Innovations improve the framework in which enterprises produce and deliver goods and services. Mutations create new frameworks.” [...]
Business leaders excel at managing highly controlled environments. They are also reconciled to the challenges of trying to control random or catastrophic events. Our work in organizations is frequently driven by a request to innovate, implement, sustain, and evolve internal [...]
Author’s Note: If we had posted this in July 2011 when it was drafted, we would have offered many similar observations but we did not have the Complexity Space Framework -- our pattern-based model for change. The original draft referenced [...]