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)…
What Is Real Executive Work? (That Executives Aren’t Doing)
Japanese workers call their executives “tea drinkers”I got some strong comments regarding my post that executives are boobs. I probably should have said “worthless drags on shareholder value who ought to be golden parachuted into a live volcano that resembles the eternal hell they deserve for being lazy good-for-nothings.” But let’s not quibble.
Let’s instead deal with what real executive work…
You Change Your Mind – And That’s Not Normal
If you’re old enough to bother reading this, you likely can look over your life and see the points at which you have changed your mind. Or finessed one of your pet theories of life. To you this seems like a normal process, one that comes with aging and growing.
It’s not.
You’re weird.
And it makes people see you as wishy-washy or “compromising”. More after t…
Job Role (Social Role) Defines Your Behaviour: Wilfred Brown & Elliott Jaques
Lord Wilfred Brown, the Managing Director of Glacier Metal Company, was insistent: Behaviour is as much defined and limited by the role that a work inhabits as his personality and the quality of his relationships within the company. You can even take this farther than he did: the social role you inhabit (or are forced into) will make you behave in certain ways. This may comes as shock if you’r…
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…
Trust Is Necessary To Society. The Glacier Model Builds Trust
There’s a fascinating paper at the IMF by social capital guru Francis Fukuyama (Social Capital and Civil Society – Prepared for delivery at the IMF Conference on Second Generation Reforms) that covers his reasoning behind social capital being called “capital” at all. Besides being interested in how to create societies, I’ve always found him a lucid writer who discusses a topic that relates to t…
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,…
My Google Failure, and Thoughts on Elliott Jaques
It seems that I’ve done something here to upset Google. Back when I started writing about Dr. Elliott Jaques, my blog was #3 when you searched for “elliott jaques”, right after his own Requisite Organization and Art Kleiner’s excellent introductory article on the man and his stratified systems theory.
Now it’s #76.
It’s clear that somehow I’ve done something wrong, for I have continued to…
Podcast update: Jack Fallow interview
The Manasclerk Company, along with the Secret Rules of Career Success, is adding a podcast called “The Killer App”. Yesterday I added an interview with Jack Fallow. Jack was founder Chairman of GasForce, a company created when its employees bought out the group from British Gas. Yes, an employee-owned company that followed the Glacier Metal Company model.