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Monthly Archives: March 2014

Learning: The Power of Simulations

Last week I facilitated a day-long course on the “Fundamentals of Finance for Decision Making” as part of the DeGroote Executive Education program. I was using the Apples & Oranges simulation from the Swedish company, Celemi. I say “facilitated”, rather … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Apples & Oranges, Celemi, Center for Creative Leadership, DeGroote, ecocycle, EVA, Hartwick College, Klas Mellander, learning, simulations, teaching | Comments Off on Learning: The Power of Simulations

The Great Transformation – Getting a Handle on Wicked Problems at the 2014 Global Drucker Forum

The theme for the 6th Global Peter Drucker Forum to be held in Vienna November 13-14 is “The Great Transformation – Managing Our Way to Prosperity”. The launch event took place in that city last week. Over 120 people gathered … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged Anglo-Saxon capitalism, Bretton Woods, bubbles, Carlota Perez, change, deployment, ecological perspective, financial capital, gilded age, Global Peter Drucker Forum 2014, golden age, Great Recession, inflection point, installation, probe-sense-respond, productive capital, Schumpeter, techno-economic paradigm, technological revolution, turning point | Comments Off on The Great Transformation – Getting a Handle on Wicked Problems at the 2014 Global Drucker Forum

The Spring Campaign

Last Sunday we put our clocks forward in Canada to reflect the return of the sun to the Northern Hemisphere and the possibility that winter might come to an end and give way to spring. It cannot come soon enough; … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General | Tagged Apples & Oranges, Celemi, Center for Creative Leadership, Conference Board, De Groote, Enterprise Risk Management, finance, ice, Kamloops, Leadership Metaphor Explorer, Rotary, San Diego, spring, Thompson Rivers University, United Jewish Appeal, Visual Explorer, winter | Comments Off on The Spring Campaign

BOOM! – The Perils of Big-Bang Rollouts

Late last year Target, the Minneapolis-based American discount retail chain, suffered a massive data security breach. Just before the busy Christmas season hackers broke into the corporation’s computer systems and stole information from over 100 million of its credit and … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, Leadership, Strategy | Tagged big bang, change, ecological perspective, hacking, HMO, Hudson's Bay, Learning from the Links, Lowe's, Obamacare, Oxford Health Plans, positive deviance, RONA, security breach, Stephen Wiggins, systems, Target, W.T. Grant, Zellers | 1 Comment