Tackling the Monkey: Addressing the Bottleneck for Strategic Success

“Whenever smart and well-intentioned people avoid confronting obstacles, they disempower employees and undermine change.”― John Kotter “Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organisation must be to identify the weakest link.”― Eliyahu Goldratt [TL;DR In the world of strategy and innovation, the key to success

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Shifting Perspectives: From Mechanistic Machines to Living Systems

“Deep in most of us, below our awareness, indelibly implanted there by three centuries of the industrial age, is the mechanistic, separatist, cause-and-effect, command-and-control, machine model of reality. If you do not think your internal model of reality is not largely based on the machine as metaphor, carefully keep track of every thought and every

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Technical Debt is anchored in Psychological and Organisational Debt

“The hardest part of these decisions was neither the technological nor economic transformations required. It was changing the culture — the mindset and instincts of hundreds of thousands of people who had grown up in an undeniably successful company, but one that had for decades been immune to normal competitive and economic forces. The challenge was making

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