Timespan of Discretion is the biggest point of complaint that the old folks in the Glacier Metal related work (Requisite Organization, Stratified Systems Theory, Career Path Appreciation, work levels or worklevels, etc.). If you’re new, you may be scratching your head about this “Timespan of Discretion”. Elliott Jaques, the psychiatrist and researcher who coined the phrase “mid-life crisis”,…
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Does Requisite Organization really work over a weekend? (REDUX)
Eight years ago, back when I was Google-ranked #1 or #2 for such things, I asked if the Requisite Organization of Elliott Jaques would really work wonders over a weekend, as Dr. Jaques implied in his book, Requisite Organization (2nd Ed.). Paul Tremlett had an interesting take from conversations with the late Dr. Jaques.
My best recollection of EJ on this one was he (at least initially)…
Wilfred Brown speaks about requisite organizations: Exploration in Management films
I put this together to advertise the Exploration in Management film series by the Glacier Institute of Management, now FREE at the GO Society (registration required). It’s no longer available as a DVD, only through the web: I should update my video.
Hear the most important CEO you’ve never heard about, Glacier Metal Company’s Wilfred Brown, talk about the Glacier model for…
Why Requisite Organization Will Not Survive
I’ve been wondering lately if Requisite Organization (the ideas formulated by Elliott Jaques) will survive for much longer. The GO Society identified several years ago that most of their members were “gray” — retirees or close to retirement age — and there were few young people in the pipeline to replace them.
I’ve worked with Requisite Organization people for several years now,…
Jaques First To Use “Culture” About Companies
Geert Hofstede, in “Culture’s Consequences”, says it plain: Elliott Jaques was the first to use “culture” in management literature.
The Law of the Real Boss & Your Love Life
Learn how your love life is influenced by the Law of the Real Boss — discovered by Elliott Jaques and Wilfred Brown (etc.) at Glacier Metal — and the associated corollaries. If you are on a higher trajectory than others, finding a mate will be harder.
Lord Wilfred Brown’s Training Films Now Available Online
The GO Society has quietly put up the Exploration in Management training films. These films, produced for the Glacier Institute of Management and narrated by Lord Wilfred Brown, the retired Managing Director of Glacier Metal Company and Prochancellor of Brunel University, show how the radical ideas Brown developed with Dr. Jaques work from a manager’s point of view.
I’m glad that these ar…
New PeopleFit Course
Michelle Malay Carter of Mission Minded Management has let out that PeopleFit will put on another public seminar to introduce interested folks in the organizational theories that come out of Stratified Systems Theory / Requisite Organization:
On January 7th, I’ll be co-leading a short course on some of the basics of the model and their implications for organizational structure, employ…
Kinston's & Algie's guide on how managers can approach decisions
For Friday, here’s “Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action” by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989. This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it’s really about action.
Alistair Mant speaks on Wilfred Brown and Industrial Democracy
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Alistair Mant, Chairman, Socio-technical Study Group, spoke at the 2005 GO Society Conference in Toronto about his experiences and work with Wilfred Brown, the chairman of Glacier Metal Company, where the ideas about work levels were originally worked out. Mant makes the point that well before Dr. Jaques and his Tavistock colleagues came onto the scene, Brown was…