Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and internally consistent operating systems. Payoff - results - as long as the music lasts. But ... all that streamlining and re-engineering limits diversity, suppresses self-organization ... and curtails a bottom up emergent response to disruptive change.
Nothing fails like success. - Richard Pascale
Nothing fails like success.
- Richard Pascale
Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people. - Richard Pascale
Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncer… - Richard Pascale
The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncer…
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed… - Richard Pascale
Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed…
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutio… - Richard Pascale
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutio…
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable - Richard Pascale
Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable
The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got. - Richard Pascale
The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.
Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the … - Richard Pascale
Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the …
Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes--a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living sy… - Richard Pascale
Harnessing adversity is a discipline tailored to a world of unpredictable outcomes--a world where one can disturb, but not wholly direct, a living sy…
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