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This is a place to share and discuss your opinions, observations, and experiences working for organizations. Please post bookmarks, notes, docs, and pics relevant to both hierarchically and wirearchically structured organizational behaviors. How do individuals and groups of people behave differently inside of, and outside of, various organizational structures? How does the organization as a "whole" appear to behave to an external observer?
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Classical models of managerial leadership: trait, behavioural, contingency and transformational theoryWhat is leadership? Here Michele Erina Doyle and Mark K. Smith explore some of the classical models of leadership. In particular they look at earlier approaches to studying the area via the notions of traits and behaviours, and to what has become known as contingency theory. From there they turn ...
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Hierarchical Growth « Bulldozer00's BlogI’m currently in the process of reading Donella Meadows’s Thinking In Systems . Donella says that successful hierarchical systems grow from the bottom up, one layer at a time. In the case of a human-made system of humans, as an assembled group of people becomes successful at what it does, it ...
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Netflix Culture « Bulldozer00's BlogI’m constantly scouring the landscape for companies with cultures that stand apart from the herd (moooo!). Via my e-friend Byron Davies’ discovery, I’ve just added another gem to my list: Netflix. Here’s the link that triggered the addition: Netflix Culture . It’s a simple, unadorned (content ...
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FT.com / Companies / Oil & Gas - ‘Rogue broker’ blamed for oil spike‘Rogue broker’ blamed for oil spike The startling spike in oil prices to their highest level this year on Tuesday was caused by a rogue broker who ...
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Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an IdiotPortrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot By Bruce Schneier Wired News June 14, 2007 The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over the past few years, is a study in alarmism and incompetence: on the ...
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Video: Merlin's Talk, "Toward Patterns for Creativity" | 43 FoldersHas anyone thought about applying patterns to science?dekaysion added 9 months ago
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Under Siegeisn't this the way most orgs operate? isn't this the educational model too? so, by the time you've been through an MBA program, you're ready to jump into it with both feet; but, by the time you've been in it for a while, you're losing a lot of the reason why you got the MBA? so, yeah, it's ...Franz Glaus added 9 months ago
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Under SiegeFor orgs that operate this way, do you think that they're consciously aware that they're doing it? Thanks for listening.pomlover added 10 months ago
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Treated Like a Terrorist by the DMV | | AlterNetHi Marcia. I've seen this org. behavior before the installation of ERP systems :^)pomlover added 11 months ago
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Treated Like a Terrorist by the DMV | | AlterNetI have seen this before, following the installation of ERP systems. Responsibility becomes diluted to the point of uselessness, roles are unclear, and no one seems to have a sense of the relationship of the parts to the whole, or even an accurate sense of the whole system and how it functions ...Marcia Pawlowski added 11 months ago
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