On Elliott Jaques’s Detractors
Have the detractors of Elliott Jaques ever bothered to read his work on Requisite Organization and Stratified Systems Theory (SST) before they condemned it?
View ArticleHierarchy versus Emergence in Organizations
Hierarchies are emergent phenomena. One of the things that has bothered me with the several “postmodern” discussions about organizational life has been the disregard for hierarchies often expressed by...
View ArticleWhy Work Levels Are Rejected: Others Are Selfish Fallacy
While reading the excellent and highly recommended book by Heath & Heath, Made to Stick, I came upon this passage about Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs: Imagine that a company offers its employees a...
View ArticleTransitions Are Like Being Lost In The Pacific
Once we get past our teens, our cognitive capacity to handle complexity grows over time in predictable rates. This is similar to psychologist Jean Piaget’s ideas of Theory of Cognitive Development in...
View ArticleWilfred Brown film series: Excerpt
I've been talking about how Wilfred Brown, management (heck, all-round) genius, made this series of films in the 1970s. Here's an excerpt I pulled from the first film. This gives you a flavor of the...
View ArticleFull Employee Participation in Policy-Making Through Representative Council...
Wilfred Brown, the Managing Director and Chairman of Glacier Metal Company during Elliott Jaques's work there, continued to believe that all employees had interest in changes to POLICY. He delimited...
View ArticleBonuses Backfire by Reducing Long-term Employee Performance
New research shows that bonuses backfire on companies, even blocking common sense. A summary.
View ArticleMine Your Ranks to Find Gold: Finding Untapped Potential in Your Company with...
Judy Hobrough of BIOSS went into an organization and mapped the current capability of people with what their current roles were. She found something that surprised the CEO: there was a gold mine in...
View ArticleMy Google Failure, and Thoughts on Elliott Jaques
It seems that I’ve done something here to upset Google. Back when I started writing about Dr. Elliott Jaques, my blog was #3 when you searched for “elliott jaques”, right after his own Requisite...
View ArticleWhy Requisite Organization Will Not Survive (Or Will It?)
UPDATE: Ken Shepard, President of the Global Organization Design Society, has written a response: Perhaps Requisite Organization is going viral under the radar! I’ve been wondering lately if Requisite...
View ArticleExploration in Management: Free training by Wilfred Brown on requisite...
The most important CEO management thinker you’ve never heard of — Lord Wilfred Brown, Managing Director (CEO) of Glacier Metal Company in the UK — gives you the lowdown on how organizations can be...
View ArticleWhy Time Span of Discretion Works
Timespan of Discretion is the biggest point of complaint that the old folks in the Glacier Metal related work (Requisite Organization, Stratified Systems Theory, Career Path Appreciation, work levels...
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