If people had any idea what real management leadership looked like, the idea of self-managed teams wouldn’t be thought of as anything so radical.
On Successfully Bringing Change to An Organization
Since I’m having a tough time with my case study, I’ll try putting down some things that I think are true about organization change in general. Forrest’s Postulates on Organizational Change
The High Mode Problems of Hidden High Potentials
Let’s meander for awhile, talking about what the experience of being a hidden high potential, what Elliott Jaques called “high mode individuals”. “High mode” means someone who will be in Stratum 6 or higher at 65-70 yrs, and Higher Mode means Stratum 9 or higher, and Really-High Mode is someone at Str 11 or more. God help anyone who is …
CIP and Representative vs Direct Democracy
I’ll be posting some random, unsubstantiated thoughts after the great PeopleFit course in Raleigh last week. If CIP is real, then having a representative democracy (like the United States and Canada both do) is superior to direct democracy. The people are capable of choosing the biggest leader, even if he or she is much bigger than they are. Of course, …
PeopleFit’s Course on “Assessing Raw Talent”
So, I returned from the PeopleFit course on how to assess raw talent through CIP evaluations. Wow. What a great class. Hands down the best course that I have ever attended. I’ll be unpacking the various things I learned, including how much I got from the other people in the class over the next few days. There are several things, …
To Clear Things Up, I Do Not Believe That Alison Brause Misunderstands RO
Although that certainly didn’t read clearly in the original post. The guy who wrote the article on Brause’s work didn’t understand RO. That was my point. It was obvious reading the piece that he thought of RO as fascist. IMHO. He has some type of axe to grind. I can make some speculations about what happened but I won’t. I …
Misunderstanding Requisite Organization
I was poking around to see if Alison Brause had done anything on this election and found an interesting opinion piece on her Requisite Organization based study over at the Boston Globe’s site. I’m not particularly a fan of the Brause report — something smells a bit bad about basing the evaluations on debate transcripts — but the author [UPDATE: …
Dunbar Numbers and Requisite Failures
I’ve been looking for information about W.L. Gore & Associates because of a connection with Requisite Organization research. In my search, I came across an interesting discussion about management styles by instrument scientist Eric Nehrlich. He directs us to a very useful case study about Gore (which will be dealt with in a later post) but he also mentions the …
Bought Jaques’s A GENERAL THEORY OF BUREAUCRACY
I got the Red Cover edition of Elliott Jaques’s book today. I could have saved some cash and ordered it from Australia, but I figured that the Friends To The North would ship more quickly. And they did: it arrive a week and a half after my ABEBooks order. I have no idea what the Red Cover edition comes from. …
Controlling for CIP in the Social Sciences
I’ve been thinking lately about the role of “time span of discretion” findings of Elliott Jaques and his colleagues in the results of social science. For example, Nancy M. Schullery reviews some of the literature about success and argumentativeness in “Argumentative Men: Expectations of Success” (The Journal of Business Communication, October 1999): Individuals with the personality predisposition of high argumentativeness …