Healthy organizations

Roger on 10/05/2023

In healthy organizations, leaders take responsibility for the system and people take responsibility for their actions. In unhealthy organizations, leaders blame the people and the people blame the system.

David Marguet

Gaps in the system

Roger on 10/05/2023

I wonder where gaps fit into systems and system mapping, because any system is already complete so the gap is really between current and future versions of the system.

Classifying organisations

Roger on 09/05/2023

I think you can classify organisations by how they are optimised.

  • at the org level. Super effective, very rare.
  • at the dept level. Lots of conflict, most often.
  • at the team level. Really hard to achieve, pretty effective.

Roadmapping science

Roger on 08/05/2023

The transformation from traditional roadmapping processes to new ways of roadmapping is not sufficiently addressed in the scientific literature

– Jürgen Münch; Stefan Trieflinger; Dominic Lang

Management by numerical goal

Roger on 08/05/2023

Management by numerical goal is an attempt to manage without knowledge of what to do, and in fact is usually management by fear.

Deming