How Organizations Create Intrinsic Value
Organizations create intrinsic value by building meaning for customers and employees.
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The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (My Notes)
A detailed summary of W. Brian Arthur’s book, The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
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Are Organizations Alive? A Different Take on the Evolution of Technology
With each passing year, organizations act more and more like living entities thanks to the evolution of technology. The notion that organizations might be a form of life is a radical perspective. It is useful as metaphor, but through this and future articles, I hope to persuade you that an “organization as life” perspective is
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Corporate Raider, Carl Icahn is not entitled to Apple’s cash
Carl Icahn’s “shareholder activism” against Apple is putting lipstick on a corporate raider. It’s shareholder primacy and what’s most wrong with business.
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Let’s Expel Shareholder Primacy from Business School
Shareholder primacy forces businesses to maximize returns for shareholders; it’s time to stop teaching that in our business schools.
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Invest in People – with Deliberately Developmental Organizations
You may have never heard of “Deliberately Developmental Organizations.” I hadn’t, until yesterday, but it’s an idea that’s worth understanding because it appeals to some very basic human desires and because it fits nicely the idea of “regenerative business,” which I occasionally write about on this site. What is a “Deliberately Developmental Organization”? Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey
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It’s Time to Shift Perspective on Our Organizational Boundaries
Many of us who have worked in organizations fool ourselves into believing something that just isn’t really true. We think of organizational boundaries as something real, when in fact, it’s just a concept. Sure, boundaries matter from a legal point of view, but that perspective also creates a distortive field that obscures a more important
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Wall Street’s “Distorporation” – The New Dark Matter of Our Economy
The “distorporation” is a virulent new form of corporate partnership that is shrouded in secrecy and profits – the new dark matter of our economy.
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Soulful Organizations
Soulful organizations connect us to people and to missions, but more than that, they connect us to ourselves.
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How a Service Tether Turns a Product into a Service
A “service tether” connects a product to the cloud; it transforms products into services and helps companies hone their impact with customers.
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