https://youtu.be/YFafrYQEyKQ Leadership of Learning (Video 5 minutes). Vigorous Learning: In a world of meaningless management clichés, any organizational leader will say that people in her organization are learning. But how fast and about what? Every failure is a...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West. Geoffrey West is Distinguished Professor and the former President of the Santa Fe Institute. He is a theoretical...
https://youtu.be/yDSugEjZNNI Coffee With Doc: Glocalization (Video 3.75 minutes). “Glocalization” is a hybrid word: global + local; implying global awareness and learning, but action at a local level. This term is uncommon, but not new. It describes many movements...
The Symphony of Profound Knowledge by Edward Martin Baker Baker, now retired, was a staff executive with Ford Motor Company who orchestrated Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s interactions with that company, and he was close enough to Deming in other settings that he came to...
https://youtu.be/qv0yFKLvru4 Coffee With Doc: E Corp (Video 4 minutes) E-Corps – A Framework for Thought? An E-Corp is an Earth Corporation, an Eco Corporation, or an Environmental Corporation, however you wish to interpret the E. The idea is the brainchild of Mark...
The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy by Gerald F. Davis Gerry Davis is a professor of sociology in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has long studied the effects of finance on society, and he carefully...
https://youtu.be/ueGN2a3cJR4 Conferencing With Doc (Video 7 minutes). In prior posts, we have proposed that the purpose of a society and its economy is “to preserve life – all life – indefinitely.” Making money is not that objective, and obsession with money confuses...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth If you follow economic news and have not heard of Kate Raworth, chances are you will. Doughnut Economics is more than a book; it’s a budding one-woman movement. Kate is a British...