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The Map and The Territory: Complexity as Challenge and Opportunity
My blog this week is an extended version of a comment I made a couple of days ago on Adrian Wooldridge’s (the Schumpeter columnist) report on the 5th Drucker Forum in The Economist. It also picks up from last week’s … Continue reading
Posted in Change, General, Leadership, Strategy | Tagged Christensen, complex systems, complexity, Drucker Forum, formulation, fractal, implementation, job-to-be-done, learning, Mandelbrot, map, Martin Wooldridge, projects, Roger Martin, scale, Schumpeter, strategy, territory, tolerance, Vienna | Comments Off on The Map and The Territory: Complexity as Challenge and OpportunityYou Can’t Herd Cats, But They Will Hunt Together
Over the weekend I got back from Vienna, where I attended the 5th Annual Peter Drucker Global Forum, the theme of which was “Managing Complexity”. Last year I attended my first of these extraordinary conferences on the strength of my … Continue reading
Posted in Change, General, Leadership, Strategy | Tagged administrative practices, Cartesian cascade, complex systems, global forum, herding, herding cats, hunter-gatherer, hunting, hunting dynamics, Johan Roos, John Hagel, let it happen, make it happen, Peter Drucker, Philip Diab, project management, pull, push, stretch goals, Terry Cooke-Davies | Comments Off on You Can’t Herd Cats, But They Will Hunt TogetherEuropean Union: If You Have Them By Their Wallets, Will Their Hearts and Minds Follow?
Last Thursday I was the opening speaker at the International Forum for Future Europe held November 7- 8 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The theme of the conference was Sustainable Development and Harmonious Society and the title of my talk was “European … Continue reading
Posted in Change, General, Leadership, Strategy | Tagged buy-in, change, Charles de Gaulle, community, complex systems, ecocycle, ecological perspective, ECSC, European community, European integration, European Union, French army, means and ends, Moebius strip, narrative, national identity, Nigel Farage, power, power trap, Thirty Year War, Tony Judt, UKIP, Vilnius | 1 CommentHeading for London, Vilnius and Vienna
This week I am travelling to London England, which I will use as my base to attend conferences in Vilnius, Lithuania and Vienna, Austria. In Vilnius I am the opening speaker at the International Forum on the Future of Europe. … Continue reading
Posted in General | Tagged 40, Drucker Forum, European Union, Future Europe, Lithuania, renewal, Roger Martin, sustainability, Vienna, Vilnius | 1 Comment-
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