Friday, August 27, 2021

Intelligence and stupidity

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 I used to naively think that intelligence and stupidity are opposites, but have come to understand that stupidity is in some sense orthogon...
Friday, July 30, 2021

Introducing bufferts and slack in organisational processes

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Typically when estimating how long a task will take for a project you see managers multiplying the estimate with some factor. This leads to ...
Saturday, July 03, 2021

Curing organisational incompetence

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Organisational incompetence was defined in the 1990:s by J. Steven Ott and Jay M. Shafritz  an inability of an organisation to learn from it...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Is Organisational DNA a broken metaphor?

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In the current business jargon the term "organisational DNA" is more and more used to describe the culture an organisation embodie...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Models for thinking, evaluation, discussion and affecting people

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Models can greatly aid in thinking about systems: A model can be a stake in the ground to disagree with. A model can be something to help ev...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Language matters

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 Using acronyms, internal established slang, management speak and special terms can make writing simpler. This however comes at a cost to th...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Knowing what is true and spotting lies

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There is lots of research being done on various themes like Artificial Intelligence among other popular fields. We see constant daily stream...