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Why we have trouble doing nothing
August 20, 2015When I began perusing the research paper “Learning by Thinking: Overcoming the Bias for Action through Reflection”, one of...
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Thoughts about the learning-thinking connection
August 13, 2015This week, I delve a bit more into some of the ideas of the paper I referred to last...
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Reflection and the young, busy manager
August 6, 2015Recently, I spoke to a focused and lively audience at Banco Galicia in Buenos Aires. For the past two...
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Jack Welch and “the people game”
May 28, 2015I referred last time to an assertion of one of my business school professors, back in 1983, that we...
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Silos and systems thinking
August 21, 2014Last week, writing about General Motors caused me to reflect a bit more on why silos exist in organizations,...
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The failure of systems thinking at General Motors
August 15, 2014In the past few weeks, since preparing my remarks for the Harvard class on systems thinking, I have been...
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A visit to Harvard to talk about systems thinking
July 17, 2014I ended the last post with the thought that theatre training and acting experience had helped me to become...
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An interesting journey to America (part 2)
November 21, 2012A noteworthy meeting :The following Monday, November 5, I had a long breakfast meeting and conversation with Jamil Mahuad,...
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A visit to Harvard
September 5, 2012As some of you may recall, I had planned to continue in the coming weeks with the concept of...