These three YouTube videos are guaranteed to shift your business paradigms. Or at least get you thinking. Featured are the 22-minute meeting, questioning the economic growth paradigm, and an insightful analysis about capitalism. [...]
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July 24th, 2011 | Tags: capitalism, cool YouTube videos, economic growth, meetings, paradigms | Category: Surfing the Net | Leave a comment  Save a tree, share instead!The way we were. Throughout my career, I always seem to find myself in business process review and implementation. As I am very comfortable questioning…well…everything, I end up …er…helping people let go of the “way we used to do things”. It’s hard work. Mainly because people really love their paradigms. Here are some of the [...] June 13th, 2011 | Tags: business processes, change management, paradigms, resisting change, turkey dinner | Category: Peeves | Leave a comment Save a tree, share instead!Pyramids are everywhere. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about hierarchy these days. And I’ve noticed something rather interesting: humanity has an obsession with pyramids. Pyramids: built for Kings of the (sand) castle I’m not talking just about Egypt, but why not start there? The pyramids in Egypt were built for a sole [...] June 24th, 2010 | Tags: empire, hierarchy, history, king, kingdom, managerial capitalism, organization, paradigms, pyramids | Category: Broken | Leave a comment Save a tree, share instead!Lovely, useless antiques or decaying, rotten crap. Our house, dating back to the 1920s, is rather old, for a Canadian house. (If you are European, you are laughing and saying: “Oh, that new?” Please, bear with me.) We have some lovely plaster molding on the walls in our living and dining rooms. We paid a [...] May 11th, 2010 | Tags: hierarchy, history, management, managerial capitalism, organization, paradigms | Category: Broken | 4 comments Save a tree, share instead!I’d like to tell you two stories. Both of them are true. As a Project Manager, I have come across many broken things in organizations. Regardless of your profession, I challenge you to look for the broken things in these two stories. The first story involves a woman who lived in country where the people [...] March 15th, 2010 | Tags: democracy, management, organization, paradigms | Category: Broken | 3 comments Save a tree, share instead! |
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