Organizations are the ultimate cross-functional team
From Brown and Duguid’s The Social Life of Information Well, duh. Wish I had thought of that. The current cry for “cross-functional teams” results from the inability of the organization to manage its...
View ArticleExecutive Compensation May Be Out of Whack Entirely For What We Get
Mark Van Clieaf recently sent me an article he’s written (“Executive Accountability and Excessive Compensation: A New Test For Director Liability”). He and his colleagues have done a study of 700...
View ArticleMark Van Clieaf asks, “What work are we paying CEOs to do?”
Mark Van Clieaf is all for paying someone for what they are doing but he believes that CEOs are delivering only short-term value, at the expense of the company's long term viability. And, if his...
View Article“Average CEO now makes $10.7 million” [Reuters]
Reuters reports today that CEO compensation has changed to more long-term options tied to stock performance. MSN ran it as “Average CEO now makes $10.7 million: Pay packages 5% fatter in 2004, but...
View ArticleDemystifying Management
Al Gorman What exactly is management and how do we provide for its effectiveness? The thought of navigating through the labyrinth of attributes, formulae and competencies being offered today is both a...
View ArticleDiscrimination Deters the Realization of Current Potential Capability
Central to the objectives of stratified systems theory and requisite managerial practices is the notion that the organization will reach its full potential capability by facilitating the opportunities...
View ArticleWhy Are My Investments Sinking?
Complexity of Mental Processing (CMP) is significant not only in its relationship with designing requisite organizations and optimizing managerial hierarchy. Would you like your portfolio manager to be...
View ArticleHow To Judge a CEO’s Capacity to Do That Job
You can get a pretty good idea of how risky a CEO’s tenure will be to overall shareholder value by looking at interviews he or she gave before taking on that top job, and assessing these via Elliott...
View ArticleVanderburg on Galbraith on Technostructure
Some notes from Living In The Labyrinth of Technology by Willem H. Vanderburg. (University of Toronto Press, 2005). Citing Galbraith’s earlier work, to argue for Ellul’s rise of technique. The argument...
View ArticleLord Wilfred Brown’s Training Films Now Available Online
The GO Society has quietly put up the Exploration in Management training films. These films, produced for the Glacier Institute of Management and narrated by Lord Wilfred Brown, the retired Managing...
View ArticleUsing Requisite Organization to Manage Staff in an Evangelical Megachurch
The Rev. Dr. John Morgan is the head pastor of a growing independent Evangelical church in New Mexico that uses the mega-church model. Morgan wrote a chapter in the GO Society book (disclosure: I...
View ArticleHow the Disney World Model Leads to Top-Down Absolute Control
Did the American Evangelical megachurch adopt the unchecked executive model because it wanted to emulate Disney World and its fantasy of American small town life? It’s a charge that’s worth looking at...
View ArticleJack Welch, Fabulous? Dow outperforms GE from his start
The Dow has outperformed GE over the start of Jack Welch’s tenure to today. Still think he's a hero? See the graphs that show the truth.
View ArticleFull Employee Participation in Policy-Making Through Representative Council...
Wilfred Brown, the Managing Director and Chairman of Glacier Metal Company during Elliott Jaques's work there, continued to believe that all employees had interest in changes to POLICY. He delimited...
View ArticleLord Acton on Organization
Lord Acton described how leadership changed over time, and explains despotism pretty well. It applies to corporations.
View ArticleWhy Boards Go Wrong: “It’s the Group, Stupid!”
Back in 2005, the Brooklyn Law Review published the papers from the Corporate Misbehavior by Elite Decision-Makers Symposium, which Brooklyn Law School apparently held. Harvard’s Rakesh Khurana &...
View ArticleWhy Russia Hacked the Election (hint: It wasn’t “elect Trump”)
Russia's goal was to hurt Clinton who they feared & needed to hobble. Trump winning surprised them, like expecting a toy and getting a pony.
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