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Organic and Mechanical Approaches to Complex Systems: Part II – Philosophical Differences

After the discussion of my HBR blog, “Stop Trying to Engineer Success”, died down on the Harvard site it continued, at least in name, on a thread in Systems Thinking World (STW). With over 17,000 members, STW is an unusually … Continue reading →

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Command and Collaborate

In a recent HBR blog, INSEAD Professor Herminia Ibarra reported from the World Economic Forum in Davos.  The theme of the meeting was “The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models”. As far as leadership was concerned, she wrote that the emerging … Continue reading →

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