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Scholar and critical management icon Henry Mintzberg wrote a new book on management myths. Should you read it? (opens the original)
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I am a big fan of Henry Mintzberg’s, especially since I started writing management books myself, in 2003. Mintzberg’s humorous, yet thoughtful and always critical writings have been a constant source of inspiration to me for several decades. So much that I included him in my popular list of Heroes of Leadership, in 2013.Now Mintzberg has just published another book - his 21st, according to his own resumé as a writer. The new tome is a sli
Henry Ford’s timeless book ‘Today and Tomorrow‘ from 1926 gains a new edition (opens the original)
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“It’s a project of love”, says Niels Pflaeging during the episode. A re-publication that Niels just had to make happen. In this episode of our podcast, Rijon and Niels discuss the background of this project. Why Today and Tomorrow is “the original Lean book.” Why Niels made a point of adding a 20-page biography of Henry Ford to the book. Why the content of the book’s 24 chapters is almost “magical”, as well as the dark side and the light of Ford’s character and history. Watch the episode now!Loo
To judge the potential of humans and AI, look closer at the nature of learning (opens the original)
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Rijon Erickson and Niels Pflaeging go to the sources of Beta thinking (opens the original)
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In their new podcast episode, and discuss “a genealogy of Beta” tracing back the origins of Beta thinking, in all its facets. Rijon and Niels talk about the scientific and practical fields that have influenced Beta, but also about individual thinkers, academics, pioneers and practitioners that have promoted and advanced self-organization, decentralization, organizational democracy and flow. The conversation reaches back to the heyday of the Venetian Arsenal, in the 16th century, when the most fo
Learning without teaching: A conversation about the qomenius approach (opens the original)
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The solution to the riddle of how to get hundreds our thousands of people to learn and change their minds, without forcing or “teaching” them, was to discover a new kind of didactics, or learning method. In this episode of the News to the Beta World podcast, and talk about how this new kind of didactics came about, and how it was turned into a a tech platform and learning ecosystem called qomenius.To learn more about qomenius, visit the qomenius website.</
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