The high performance organization is a conceptual framework for organizations that leads to improved, sustainable organizational performance. It is an alternative model to the bureaucratic model known as Taylorism.
Reuters reports on the jumbo jet, which for many years have been known as the workhorse of modern air travel, could now be close to ‘running out of runway’. Due to a slump in sales of the jets, questions are being raised over how long manufacturers will be able to sustain production. It has also fueled internal…
Bloomberg gives us a warm welcome and insider look into SubTropolis: The underground industrial park in an excavated mine below Kansas City, Mo. A great attracting for tenants with the lure of lower energy costs and cheap rents, Subtropolis was carved out of 270-million-year-old limestone. More than 1,000 people now spend their workdays in SubTropolis – a…
Operational excellence is a mindset, not a methodology and needs redefining. We tend to think of operational excellence in terms of eliminating waste and standardizing the way we operate. We “lean” our processes and use six sigma approaches to drive how we operate. We also sometimes lean on these methodologies, and others, like crutches to…
Dear Readers I am deep in the throes of finishing my first book and am working diligently on completing the first draft before I send it to the butcher (ie. Editor). My target date is end-of-December (which is reasonably attainable). As such, I find that I am not really able to parse my attention and energy…
According to Bloomberg, one way to instill the reality of women’s higher pay is their increased participation of in construction training. One good example is Sylas DeMello, who makes $18 an hour and expects $25 once she has her journeyman’s license next year. This is quite step up from her earlier $13-an-hour job as a sous…
According to the Economist, there can be few better places to talk about complexity than Vienna. In the capital of the most complicated political organisation ever to exist, hundreds of management enthusiasts converged recently to debate the subject of complexity. In their discussions, they were preoccupied with two points: that business is more complicated than ever before;…
