We’ve spent almost six years building the Whole System Model of Business; more recently, we focused on building a model
While briefly considering taking an online short course at MIT Sloan, Leadership in an Exponentially Changing World, I realized that
We’re a strong advocate of Positive Change. However, we noticed that the 4-D cycle (right), used in Appreciative Inquiry (A)
In our experience, dealing with large-scale change initiatives, meaningful change can only be achieved by involving the whole system in
As you may have read on our website ROUNDMAP.com, we’ve been quite outspoken on the subject of business cycles ─
We are honored to introduce our nominee for the first Grandmaster of Business Award™, 2021. But before we present our acclaimed
During our research, we stumbled upon an interesting concept: a formula for change. It was promoted by Dick Beckhard (Organizational
Boundaries help us define and control the space that we’re in or like to investigate, however, boundaries also confine us,
CROSS~SILO has identified that barriers between functional silos are one of the root causes of low productivity, erratic customer experiences,
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk says the biggest problem with corporate America today is that too many business school
Why do most people respond poorly, even to the point of ignorance, to situations that require immediate change? Paul Rulkens,
In short: The problem with innovation isn’t that people aren’t creative. Most people are. However, very few creative initiatives are
While we’re preparing the stage for the Grandmaster of Business™, you may be aware that since 1970, in the game
Most readers will be familiar with the concept of ‘being in a comfort zone while growth requires one to dare
Should leadership distribute authority and provide teams with a high level of autonomy to innovate, or should it centralize authority
Dr. Brené Brown shared a most insightful mantra on Linkedin that we believe most of us can learn a lot
In 1993, IBM posted the biggest loss ever-recorded in corporate history, 8 billion USD. To survive, it needed to be
Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani wrote in his most recent book Think for Yourself: “The world, to
When people write that you should ‘transform your business’, what they mean to say is: You should digitalize your business
An article on Forbes, by Adrian Swinscoe, starts with, “Many Customer Experience (CX) initiatives and projects are currently failing to
In 1962, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman wrote in his book Capitalism and Freedom, “There is one and only one
Whether a startup has the potential to become a success very much depends on its founder(s). To assess the leadership
Research by Google and others confirmed that the best performing team didn’t deliver because of talent, resources, or money. Out
New York Times best-selling author and acclaimed management expert Patrick Lencioni addresses the costly and maddening issue of silos, the
In her book, The Silo Effect, FT journalist and antropologist Gillian Tett describes the destructive effects that mental, structural, and
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