Peter G. Klein wrote an article for Mises Wire titled Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business (4 Sept 2017).
Continue reading “Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business”Myths of Growth
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity: Small Giants and the Myths of Growth (July 11, 2025).
Continue reading “Myths of Growth”A Culture of Character
C. William Pollard wrote an article titled Crafting a Culture of Character for Leader to Leader (Winter 2010, pp.38-42).
Continue reading “A Culture of Character”Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?
Josh Bersin and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled Hire Leaders for What They Can Do, Not What They Have Done (27 August 2019).
Continue reading “Hiring Leaders: Am I looking forward or backward?”Culture Fit vs. Culture Add
David Burkus wrote an article titled Does Hiring For Culture Fit Actually Work? (17 March 2025).
Continue reading “Culture Fit vs. Culture Add”The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices
Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Truth About Open Offices: There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions (November-December 2019).
It is worth noting that the article was published prior to ubiquity of Zoom meetings, but the general insights on human behavior likely stand the test of time.
Continue reading “The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices”Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity
Tim Sullivan interviewed Michael Mauboussin for a Harvard Business Review article titled Embracing Complexity (September 2011).
Continue reading “Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity”Too much heroic leadership, Not enough engaging management.
Henry Mintzberg wrote a blog post title Managing to Lead (19 February 2015).
« I propose an end to the belief that leadership is separate from management, and superior to it. »
Continue reading “Too much heroic leadership, Not enough engaging management.”Management Debt
Parv Sondhi tweeted “We’ve all heard of technical debt, but I love this concept of management debt.”
He refers this a passage from the book The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (2014) by Ben Horowitz:
Continue reading “Management Debt”The complex ontology
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled The Unspoken Limits of Business Philosophy. Fortunately, the World Is Far Bigger (28 February 2024).
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