The 80/20 Rule: A Lazy Shortcut Masquerading as Strategy
The 80/20 Rule: A Lazy Shortcut Masquerading as Strategy The Pareto Principle, better known as the 80/20 rule, has become...
Why Ranking Employees Is a Strategic Misstep
The Folly of Forced Rankings: Why Stacking Employees Is a Strategic Misstep In the pursuit of performance, many organizations still...
Evolving Organizations: From Profit Maximization to Value Optimization
Evolving Organizations: From Profit Maximization to Value Optimization The Legacy: Shareholder Supremacy as Corporate Doctrine In 1970, Milton Friedman’s seminal...
Interdisciplinary Work: The Art of Seeing in Layers
Interdisciplinary Work: The Art of Seeing in Layers In the age of complexity, no single discipline holds the master key....
Rethinking DEI: Beyond Optics, Toward Substance
Rethinking DEI: Beyond Optics, Toward Substance In today’s corporate landscape, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) has become an omnipresent mantra,...
Managing Performance? Or Managing compliance?
From a macro perspective, managing performance is the foundation upon which organizational success is built. All other activities either derive...
Dispelling the Myth of ‘We Can’t Find Talent’
Rethinking Talent Acquisition: Dispelling the Myth of “We Can’t Find Talent” Across industries, a familiar refrain continues to echo: “We...
Culture and Collaboration – Challenging the Status Quo
Collaboration Reimagined: From Elusive Ideal to Organizational Competency In complex systems, behavior and performance are direct expressions of structural design....
Challenging the Status Quo of Performance Assessments
Challenging the Status Quo: Rethinking Performance Assessments The belief in the indispensability and motivational power of formal performance assessments remains...
Hierarchy and self-organization
Podcast Feature: Exploring Group Dynamics with the ‘Gruppendynamik’ Team in Berlin In this episode, we delve into the evolving tension...