Comments on: Management Advice Failures

By: Problems with Management and Business Books » Curious Cat Management Blog

Problems with Management and Business Books » Curious Cat Management Blog — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:05:48 +0000

The marketing effectiveness of a book, or consultant, has very limited correlation to their ability to improve management, in my experience…

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Ackoff, Idealized Design and Bell Labs

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:30:41 +0000

[...] stuff and another example showing the obsession with “new” ideas is wasteful. Idealized design is a way of thinking about change that is deceptively simple to state: In solving [...]

By: Curious Cat Management Blog: Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse

Curious Cat Management Blog: Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:21:03 +0000

“Time after time, and scandal after scandal, it seems that a school that graduates just 900 students a year finds itself in the thick of it. Yet there is remarkably little contrition…”

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Federal Government Chief Performance Officer

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:47:41 +0000

[...] do not exist. This self-delusional pattern is very common in the practice of management and a significant reason why the practice of management has not improved more rapidly over time. To achieve success you need to determine why the problem still exists and exploring the very [...]

By: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Making Changes and Taking Risks

Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Making Changes and Taking Risks — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:53:55 +0000

[...] the article is 10 years old by as I have stated numerous times I don’t believe only things written in the last week have value. Going back to the great stuff (even if you have read it before) is often much better than reading [...]

By: CuriousCat: New - Different - Better

CuriousCat: New - Different - Better — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:16:26 +0000

so many things are packaged as amazing new breakthroughs when really they are nice enhancements. Even management ideas are sold this way. And, for management ideas, I think they are most often actually degradations of what Deming, Ohno, Shewhart, Ishikawa, Ackoff… said – not enhancements…

By: CuriousCat: Innovation Thinking with Christensen

CuriousCat: Innovation Thinking with Christensen — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:47:15 +0000

In my opinion Clayton Christensen offers truly insightful ideas on innovation and management. He presents the rare management advice that is not only good but also new – an incredibly rare combination…

By: CuriousCat: Toyota, Lean, Consultants…

CuriousCat: Toyota, Lean, Consultants… — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:10:29 +0000

[...] Deming called them “hacks” in the 1980’s. Bob Sutton’s excellent article calls 90% of management advice crap. Care must be taken to manage effectively. It is very easy to implement management ideas poorly. [...]

By: CuriousCat: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way

CuriousCat: Breakthrough Thinking the Toyota Way — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:27:10 +0000

Very worthwhile read. And if you like it try the book – The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation by Matthew E. May and Kevin Roberts…

By: Messiness is Good?

Messiness is Good? — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:20:34 +0000

[...] Bob Sutton wrote the excellent: Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap?. What percentage of books fit that bill – over 90% I would say. And I have a guess where the interviewees book fits. [...]