October 20, 2010 On October 9-10, some of us met in Austin, Texas to discuss how to move Compression from being a book to more of a movement. How can real work organizations actually start on this? The group chewed for a while on a vision for itself, working through...
October 20, 2010 From tribal wars to functional silo squabbles, rifts among people that don’t understand the world the same way seem to be a normal condition. Even an affinity for multiple human factions at once does not assure that we’re able to agree with each...
October 5, 2010 CEOs seem to be awakening to increasing complexity, and that it could compel them to restructure their organizations. Doing this, they think, will require greater CEO creativity, according to IBM’s May CEO survey. It’s the best known of several...
October 5, 2010 Basic arithmetic has definitive answers. Most other problems are only resolved using countermeasures that take us to a better state, presuming that we agree on what might be “better.” If we can’t do that, our problems run deeper than tough technical...
Sept. 22, 2010 As long as economies can physically expand, business models and profitability calculations are objectives, and money their motivator. In Compression, this logic flips. Minimizing resource use and abuse become major objectives. However, human...
Sept. 28, 2010 Rapid adaptation characterizes a Vigorous Learning Company as described in the book Compression. The need to adapt can come from any cause: market shift, financial crisis, environmental changes, and resource shortages among many others. One way that...
Sept. 8, 2010 Whether accepting a new view of ourselves “rewires” our brain is unknown, but a truly open exchange – dialog – can be traumatic. To engage in this we have to let down our psychological barriers and prepare our minds to see things we may have been unaware...
Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin in a mold in 1928, warned in the 1940s that overuse and misuse of antibiotics would make bacteria become resistant to them. Ever since, prolific use of antibiotics has cycled through periods of conflict followed by lulls....