Organizations of the future…Organizations of the Future

Culture starved

Forget about the cultural codes

The main message is simple. Forget about the codes, there are very few codes you really need to learn. This is not Japan and you do not need to be familiar with the angle of bending when saluting. Even in Japan, they know you are not Japanese.

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Doing the work in a complex world

In many (most?) organizations, things get done and improved while the toll, that is not just the monetary cost, keeps rising. There is this famous triangle of: resources, time and quality. To maintain a standard, if one of the variables gets lowered, then the others have to make up for[…]

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Stop managing time, it’s been managing you anyway

Time is critical in modern organizations. We have so little of it that, like any other precious commodity, we are urged to manage it effectively. Still, when people started noticing time shortage, they looked for ways to use it more sensibly. Put this in the ambiance of the last century when it all happened, you get time management. We could go back to the Greeks, but I will spare you.

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