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The New Ecology of Leadership
A radical retake on the field of management, which stresses creativity, innovation and fair returns for all stakeholders and supplies a mental model and the management tools to do it.
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Don't Throw the Past Away: Rediscovering the "Drucker Space"
For Peter Drucker history was an essential resource. Commentators have described the scope of his writings as "Braudelian" in honor of the work of historian, Fernand Braudel, the leader of the French Annales school of history, renowned for its broad, integrative approach. Drucker's illustrations of organization and change included both the British Raj in India and the Meiji Restoration in Japan. A trio of little-known German thinkers, Willem von Humboldt (1767-1835), Joseph von Radowitz (1797-1853) and Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802-1861) informed his understanding of what it took to preserve the traditions of the past while facilitating rapid change.
Management by Machine: MBO as Manipulation?
Recently Adrian Wooldridge, the Schumpeter columnist for The Economist, reviewed the introduction by BetterWorks, a Silicon Valley startup, of "goal science" to the workplace. The New York Times reviewed the same company on Monday. The company "makes office software that blends aspects of social media, fitness tracking and video games into a system meant to keep employees more engaged with their work and one another. With the software, employees and their bosses set long- and short-term goals, and, over time, log their progress on a digital dashboard that everyone in their company can see and comment on." The idea is to make the Management by Objectives (MBO) process more frequent and more "data-driven". One wonders whether this is the real challenge with MBO. More often the problem is with the philosophy behind the technique, rather than with the technique itself.
MBO; an Elusive Philosophy
Management by Objectives (MBO) is a deceptively simple technique that is very difficult to employ effectively. The philosophical framework within which it is used is critical. Given Peter Drucker's background, upbringing and his emphasis on self-discipline, it seems likely that his original intent was that MBO should be the civilian equivalent of the system of mission command or auftragstaktik, developed by the Prussian army in the 19th Century. The essence of this system was that no commander should issue an order that went beyond what he could know of the actual situation. Rather he should declare an intent that created a space within which his subordinates would have the freedom to act as they saw fit. They, in their turn, would declare their slightly narrower intents and so on, down the line. This cascading set of "action spaces" preserved autonomy and creativity at every level of the organization. Helmuth von Motlke the Elder (1800-1891), who perfected the system, made no distinction between strategy development and execution – strategy could emerge bottom-up through "directed opportunism", just as readily as it could be formulated top-down. Mission command is still the gold standard for armed forces all over the world. But, outside of small Special Forces units, it has proved extremely difficult to implement – the words are easy, but behavior and the selection and training required to produce and sustain it are difficult.
In America the management philosophy required to use MBO successfully is rarely found. The prevailing perspective is engineering, instrumental and individualistic. Strategy formulation is separated from implementation and the notion of emergent strategy is diminished if not denied. Often the assumption is that cause-and-effect in a complex organization is well understood when, in reality, it is hardly understood at all. The emphasis is on performance and efficiency at the expense of creativity and learning. "Clear objectives" are seen as the CEO's input to the process rather than as an outcome of a process of discovery. "Clear" is usually taken to mean SMART: specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time-sensitive but too often the default is to financial measures. These are always desirable outcomes that, of course, leave the assumptions about cause-and-effect unexamined. In addition, clarity is often mistaken for detail, which encourages senior management to get far more specific than they should. Metrics become straightjackets – targets that define performance and are linked via incentives to compensation. This raises the stakes in the organization, leading to all kinds of dysfunctional outcomes. Instead of promoting cooperation it can easily stoke competition. The worst outcome is that it turns what should be means into ends-in-themselves. This makes the true ends of the enterprise undiscussable. Purpose and meaning dwindle and the whole MBO process becomes manipulative. Thus MBO morphs into authoritarian micromanagement, a tool of oppression. The Prussian army called it befehlstaktik – detailed command. It is the bane of large bureaucracies everywhere, disengaging people and crushing creativity and innovation. It is unclear how mechanizing the MBO process can change this. Conducting a dysfunctional goal-setting process more often seems to be a recipe for disaster.
The Wreck of The New Republic – How Not to Run a Turnaround
The economist Joseph Schumpeter famously argued that the central feature of capitalism was "creative destruction". Last month the destructive aspects were on full view in the wreck of the 100-year-old magazine The New Republic (TNR). In the first week of December 2014, a month after the celebration of its centenary, almost the entire senior staff resigned in response to the forced departure of the magazine's respected editor, Frank Foer. In one day the publication lost two-thirds of the names on its editorial masthead.
The New Republic was founded in November 1914 by leaders of the American Progressive Movement and backed financially by a Whitney heiress and her wealthy husband. Over the years, under its masthead symbol of a square-rigged frigate, it has attempted to tack and jibe between the ancient menaces of Scylla and Charybdis. That is, it tried to find a way between "left" and the "right" in many, perhaps most of the instances of that polarity: tradition and progress, liberal and conservative, rural and urban, agrarian and industrial, arts and sciences, community and individual and so on and on. The result was an often scintillating publication, but with a limited readership. TNR lived perpetually on the edge of financial catastrophe, which was staved off only by philanthropic support. Even then, there were regularly crises, when the magazine's very survival was threatened.
Internally the TNR culture was what a former editor, Andrew Sullivan describes as a "cauldron of first-class minds and third-class temperaments, engaged in something roughly called journalism not for money or pageviews, but because they believed in something, and were prepared to engage every ounce of their brainpower to fight over it. Editorial meetings were tempestuous, ribald, hilarious, and unmissable .…We experimented every week – and took risks others balked at." Not surprisingly this atmosphere proved to be a great incubator of writing talent and many of America's finest journalists have spent some time at TNR. This must account in part for the shock and anger expressed in the media at its wrecking.
Words and Looks: Leadership Lessons from A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol, was first published on December 19, 1843. So it's close enough to roll this blog out again. Happy Holidays to all!
Management gurus have drawn lessons on leadership from diverse sources, ranging from the practices of Attila the Hun to the fictional events in Star Trek. Yet they seem to have missed one of the finest accounts of transformation and change familiar to us all. It is Charles Dickens' best-loved story, A Christmas Carol. He said that he himself laughed and cried over it more than anything else he wrote, and it can still have that effect on us today. For there is a little bit (perhaps more than a little) of Ebenezer Scrooge in each of us and Dickens' penetrating observation of the condition of our "shut-up hearts" is as relevant now as it was 171 years ago. As everyone knows, it is the story of personal renewal, of the conversion of a grasping, joyless taskmaster into a public benefactor and caring friend. Dickens also outlines a process of change, which many modern organizations might try to follow. Indeed, as a story of personal and organizational transformation, it reports results that would delight any change consultant. Of course Scrooge had three consultants…
The Ecology of Innovation
A few weeks ago I delivered a keynote presentation at the Innovation Congress in Villach Austria. I spoke for about 30 minutes on the topic of The Ecology of Innovation to a group of over 600 participants. I began by saying that I wanted to leave them with three things:
- The image of a forest in springtime as a model for innovation
- The symbol of an infinity loop as a process of continual renewal
- A quote, "Nothing lasts unless it is incessantly renewed"
I then took them off to look at a lodge-pole pine forest and how it renews itself through fire. The core of such (temperate) forests is choked with hierarchy (tall trees) that hog the resources and don't allow anything to grow underneath them. Thus innovation can take place only along the edges of the system and in open patches, where small-scale experimentation is possible. Fire opens up these innovation spaces while releasing the system's resources that have been trapped in hierarchical structures. From there I went on to show how the same ecological processes operate in business organizations: enterprises are conceived in passion, born in communities of practice and trust, grow through the application of reason and mature in power. Here they become "frozen" – insensitive to what is going around them – which sets them up for crisis and destruction, but with the possibility of renewal. Conception, birth, life, death and renewal – these are topics central to an ecological perspective!
"Steering" the Enterprise
The ecological perspective is an inherently complex one. The ecological or systems view can be thought of as a three-pane window that operates in space and well as time. The result is a nine-box framework with management in the middle:
This perspective promotes the right questions about the dynamics at each of the three levels. At the product or component levels there are often fast-moving technological changes taking place. At the contextual level, political and institutional change becomes important. Clearly a manager is a person in the centre of a field of tension. This feeling was best conveyed by a single slide in the presentation. It shows the "steering wheel" of the enterprise that allows managers to navigate, using a well-known set of management "tools":
The managers have to navigate between exploration on the one (left) hand and exploitation on the other (right) hand. Their ways of doing this can be grouped into four categories – according to this framework – power, management, leadership and culture. I didn't have time to go into these in any detail, but I showed the steering wheel being turned left and right to keep the enterprise in a "sweet zone" between exploration and exploitation. To go "left" is to try something new and different and to court failure: to go "right" is to stick with the familiar and to risk falling into the crisis of a competency trap.
Supporting Evidence for This View
For the evidence to support this perspective of managers "in the middle", alternating between the exploration for new opportunities and the exploitation of the most promising of them, I used MIT Sandy Pentland's work. I have just reviewed his new book, Social Physics, and selected it as the best book of the year on innovation. In it he explains how he uses sociometers (smartphone-size instruments) to monitor multiple dimensions of body language (not content) on management teams. From a study of their interactions he can predict (with a surprisingly high level of confidence) which teams will do well on a variety of tasks. One of the things he looks for on creative teams is a "pulse" between exploration and exploitation and his measurements allow networks to "tune" themselves to the amount of these two activities they need.
In a broader context I think that measurements like Pentland's, when used as feedback to allow teams and individuals to monitor and control their own interactions, point the way to liberating us from the tyranny of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), the top-down management approaches that accompany them and the resultant crushing of innovation in large-scale organizations.

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Sloth and Chunk take the ultimate plunge into the depths of the chocolate world!
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Speaking of Howard Zinn, did you see his devastating attack on the Nobel Committee for awarding President Barack Obama the Peace Prize? Zinn says the committee "should retire, and turn over its huge funds to some international peace organization which is not awed by stardom and rhetoric, and which has some understanding of history." Ouch. —PZS
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By many accounts, it was a rough first week for the top 24 on "American Idol" last week. And while the guys had it a bit tougher than the girls when it came to harsh comments from the judges, it's not like the ladies got off scot-free.
From multiple slags about wrong song choices to the usual litany of complaints about young singers acting too old and pitchy performances, Simon, Ellen, Kara and Randy gave the dozen female contenders plenty to think about. The remaining 10 women got a rare one-day reprieve on Tuesday when leading contender Crystal Bowersox fell ill and caused a one-time-only switcheroo , forcing the boys to perform a day earlier than scheduled. At press time, there was no update on Bowersox's condition.
So what do the girls have to do Wednesday night (March 3) to make sure they're not in the bottom two come Thursday?
Lilly Scott
Last week's breakout performer moved near the front of the line with a quirky acoustic-guitar-driven take on the Beatles' "Fixing a Hole," which drew praise from the judges. As long as the 20-year-old platinum blonde keeps mixing it up and surprising the panel — but not too much — she should keep skating along.
Michelle Delamor
The little-known singer took a chance tackling Alicia Keys' "Fallin'," throwing in some bluesy runs that made for a solid live debut. Ellen loved it, and Simon said it was solid, if predictable. Delamor needs to explain to America why they should care and stretch outside her comfort zone to keep the dream alive.
Crystal Bowersox
The early front-runner among the ladies stumbled a bit last week, landing accusations from Simon that her strummy, harmonica-assisted cover of Alanis Morissette's "Hand in My Pocket" was a bit too similar to the work of countless subway buskers. Then she fell ill on Monday and forced the postponement of ladies night. Will she pull a Megan Joy and rebound from sickness stronger than ever? She can't bust out an original, but Bowersox might want to consider showing off something other than her folky credentials to remind the judges why they chose her to begin with.
Paige Miles
Another virtual stranger to viewers did pretty well in her live debut, kicking off the show with a growling take on Free's classic-rock staple "All Right Now." Cowell praised her for having the best voice of all the girls but said her song choice was hacky and cheap. The preschool teacher does indeed have a strong voice, and she, too, needs to use the new "personality snapshot" section unveiled on Tuesday night to give us some clue as to why she should get our vote. Maybe she juggles flaming knives or helped raise a baby seal as a child or speaks Esperanto. Mostly, though, she should really focus on picking the right song to prove it this week.
Siobhan Magnus
Magnus, 19, went a bit dark with her brooding take on Chris Isaak's hard-to-sing "Wicked Game," and Cowell lamented that the glassblowing apprentice didn't live up to her previous fire. Kara liked the oddball song choice, and Ellen said she was so blown away that she forgot she was watching a reality show for a moment. We didn't, so for Magnus to keep her spot, she should keep driving the oddball lane even harder and focus on showing the judges some hidden commercial appeal.
Katie Stevens
The high-schooler nearly blew it with her old-fashioned-sounding Michael Bublé ditty "Feeling Good." Ellen dinged her for being too conservative, and Cowell agreed, calling the performance pageanty and annoying. Katie has to show her age this week, and if she's smart, she'll pick an uptempo Katy Perry tune or a Ke$ha track, if it's available. "Tik Tok" would kill it and bring her all the way back. (But perhaps she could skip the verse that talks about brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack.)
Didi Benami
Benami has a great, emotional backstory and some serious chops, and her cover of Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am" was totally in her wheelhouse. Simon said she was sounding like yet another Duffy/Adele wannabe and said it was good but a bit dreary. Randy wasn't feeling the star power, so if Didi wants to be here next week, she needs to crank up the stagecraft and surprise the judges with an unexpected sound/look, à la Adam Lambert. Might we suggest a bit of Aimee Mann? Perhaps "Driving Sideways" done in a reggae style?
Haeley Vaughn
The teen country wannabe tried to go jazzy with the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which was high on energy but kind of a vocal train wreck. The judges agreed that it was all over the place and messy. Cuteness will only get you so far, so if Haeley wants to keep on chuggin', she should consider picking a Carrie Underwood song that would show off her vocal skills and make us recall what was charming about her back in Hollywood.
Lacey Brown
Lacey's "Landslide" was more like a mudslide of poor song choice. She tried to give the Fleetwood Mac classic a jazzy makeover, and nobody bought it. Brown needs to figure out who she is in a hurry, or this could be her last week on "Idol."
Katelyn Epperly
The judges razzed her about her glam makeover, but Epperly did just fine with her Beatles cover of "Oh! Darling." The Iowa college student wisely chose a song that is not the usual Beatles fodder, and while Simon said some of it was a bit screamy, he winked at her quirky sensibility and said the song choice was a nice touch. If she just stays the course, picks the right song and tones down the 1980s Madonna hairstyles and fire-engine lipstick, Katelyn should be around for a while.
What do you want to see from the girls on Tuesday night? Who do you hope steps up their game this week? Let us know below!
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$10.99Johnny's wish had come true. His family would be visiting his grandparents for Christmas. His grandparents lived in an old house in New England where his father had been born. The family together, the smells of the cookies baking, the snowy Christmas tree farm with trees of so many shapes and sizes, and most of all the wooden horse he had told his brother Liam about would make this the best
$6.99Winner of the 1999 Scott O'Dell Award A Notable Children's Book in the Field of Social Studies Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the family of friends they have built
$10.99"I am so pleased to have written my first children's book and to have my dear friend Wendell Minor illustrate it. I thought it would be a daunting project, but with six grandchildren and eleven stepgrandchildren, I've been telling stories to children for a long time." -- Mary Higgins Clark Thomas loved his summer visits to his grandmother's on Cape Cod. He spent hours wondering about the
The Story of Willa Cather, an American WriterFrom award-winning author Amy Ehrlich comes an illustrated biography of Willa Cather, one of America's greatest and most beloved writers.Willa Cather's life was a true American success story. A pioneer and determined spirit, Willa didn't let anything stand in her way. She refused to be discouraged by the fact that in the 1880s women hadn't written before, because she had many ideas to share. By
$10.99In amazingly lifelike, luminous paintings, Wendell Minor, one of America's finest wildlife and landscape painters, reveals the variety of animals that surround us when we are awake and when we are sleeping. Minor's vivid introduction to diurnal (daytime) and nocturnal (nighttime) creatures invites readers to experience the movements, sounds, colors, and textures of nature. By day a red-tailed hawk
$8.69In the icy waters of the Pacific, a massive humpback whale unexpectedly finds herself tangled in a net abandoned by fishermen. When a rescue boat and a convoy of divers arrive to help the struggling humpback, a realistic and moving encounter bridges the human and aquatic worlds.
$9.99Standing tall above the tree line, Sequoia stretches his ancient arms and gathers clouds to him. He watches as days, seasons, years pass by. His branches are home to owls and choirs of frogs. Beneath his broad canopy, a world grows.This is his story. Through controlled verse and luscious illustration, Tony Johnston and Wendell Minor do justice to the enormous figure of the sequoia tree. A Neal
John James Audubon Lives His Dream (with audio recording)As a young man, John James Audubon, the renowned American woodsman and artist, had to make a choice between following his father's dreams for him and discovering his own special destiny. In this beautifully conceived book, Robert Burleigh imagines a conversation in which Audubon tells his father why he has chosen to forgo the ordinary life of a shop-keeper and instead live out in nature to
Edward Hopper Paints His WorldAs a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his
How Big Could Your Pumpkin Grow?Every year, giant pumpkin contests take place at fairs across the country—the 2012 record-holder weighed over a ton! The latest craze is to carve the most enormous pumpkins into racing boats. But what's next? Why not think really big? Award-winning artist Wendell Minor does just that as he imagines larger-than-life pumpkins decorating some of America's favorite places—as immense as the Capitol
If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden PondIn 1845 in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau began a radical experiment: he built a cabin in the woods and lived there, alone, examining the world around him. He spent his days walking the shores of Walden Pond, growing beans, observing plants and animals, and recording his reflections in his notebook. These reflections eventually became his seminal work Walden. In this lovely picture
Amelia Earhart Crosses the AtlanticAmelia Earhart is a legend in the field of aviation, and no accomplishment of hers is more acclaimed than her unparalleled 1932 solo flight across the Atlantic. As only the second person—and the first woman—to achieve such a feat, Amelia Earhart earned a place in the history books, and award-winning author Robert Burleigh has captured every nuance of her remarkable journey in this detailed picture


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Dame Mary Marsh has been appointed by the minister for civil society to lead a review into leadership and skills in the voluntary sector.
Nick Hurd has asked her to look at how effectively existing support for the sector is meeting its need. The review will bring together key figures from the sector and from business to look at the challenges and opportunities, reporting its findings in spring 2013.
Marsh is the founding director of the Clore Social Leadership programme and was chief executive of the NSPCC for eight years, among many roles in the social sector. She has also been a member of the National Council of the Learning and Skills Council.
In August the Office for Civil Society published a report outlining its progress on new initiatives and revealed that priorities were to help the sector exploit technology and support volunteer infrastructure.
Hurd said: "Charities and social enterprises must meet the reality of tough economic conditions head-on and be ready to play a greater role in the delivery of public services, if they are to fulfil their potential to help create a better, stronger society."
He added that Marsh would also "examine how the capabilities that exist now need to adapt if the sector is to successfully navigate the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead."
Marsh said: "All of us who are committed to securing effective social action know that there is an urgent need for us to gain new skill t lead and contribute in a radically changed context."
She added: "The review must help us focus on the most urgent gaps in our capability and find smart ways of overcoming them."
Alistair Heron
12 Oct 2012
And yet recently we have heard Rory Stewart MP suggesting that professionalisation of the sector has alientated the public. Which is it to be?
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12 Oct 2012
Skills - Third Sector welcomes Dame Mary Marsh's leadership and skills review.
"Dame Mary's appointment is the most significant recognition by Government of the central importance of developing skills in our sector in recent times," says Keith Mogford, Chief Executive of Skills – Third Sector. "We understand that her new role is intended to work with the sector to identify challenges and best practice, then supporting the sector to respond by catalysing the implementation of solutions and replication of best practice. We hope this will enable our sector to improve our approaches to attraction, retention and development of high quality skills and leadership – this is essential to the sector being able to tackle the challenges of a changing environment head-on."
"Dame Mary's appointment goes to the heart of our conference theme," adds Keith Mogford.
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11 Oct 2012
After a review of the Charity Sector, they might wish to try a review of leadership and skills in Banking and the Civil Service. I think in the last few years they have more to answer for than any other segment.
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From Mac to Linux: A Musician Convert
The Mac is fairly widespread among musicians because tons of professional programs run on it. Apparently Ubuntu can completely replace the Mac, however, as in the following story.
Kim Cascone earned his bread from digital soundtracks, up to quite recently with Apple hardware and Mac OS X. For cost and performance reasons he made the switch to Ubuntu and is surprised at how good the audio processing is on reasonable priced hardware.
Now Peter Kirn has captured Cascone's conversion story on createdigitalmusic.com. Interesting about the article is not only the facts of Cascone's conversion, but the comments accompanying it that contain numerous tips and information on sound processing under Linux. For example, Cascone recommends dropping all the alternative sound systems and using ALSA and JACK together with a real-time kernel.
We'll be following upWell, this has - naturally - generated lots more feedback and commentary. We're going to round up some of the folks who have been doing great coverage of music on Linux, etc. and see if we can't do some follow up to help other folks getting rolling ...as well as do some mythbusting.
Issue 180/2015
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Dyreza Malware is Back
Powerful man-in-the-middle attack is now targeting online shopping.
Kernel Developer Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel
Another high-profile coder says the kernel team needs a kinder, gentler culture.
Bugzilla Bug
Bug database has a bug of its own that could allow an intruder to create an unauthorized account.
US Launches New Strategy for Broadband Access
Report focuses federal resources on achieving universal Internet access.
RC4 Finally Gets the Fork
Leading browser makers say "no" to porous encryption algorithm
IBM Says TOR Network a Vehicle for Ransomware
Report from the X-Force group says attackers are using TOR to hide their crimes
Mozilla Announces new Firefox API
Future Firefox extensions will be compatible with Chrome.
Weird Security Flaw Affected Intel Chips for 16 Years
Better read this if you bought your computer before 2011
OpenSSH 7.0 Secure Shell Arrives
Users should upgrade to the new version as soon as possible
Qemu Flaw Lets the Guest Escape
Xen project announces a privilege escalation problem for Qemu host systems