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Management
I have a big problem when I delegate a task. Once I mention the topic
of the task, I believe the needed result, the needed methods and resources,
and the needed empowerment are all obvious. Part of my personality type
(ENTP, for those who know Meyers Briggs typing), is that everything seems
obvious to me. The problem is: what’s obvious to me isn’t
obvious to others.
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Leadership
Some people have a clear sense of who they are, where they're going
in life; they can see it clearly because they have a personal vision
of what they want to achieve in their life. They're committed to it.
They're at peace with it.
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Building an
Effective Organization
As managers build and use tools to support their decision making, they
have a number of things to do and roles to play. The pyramid in the figure includes a significant set of activities at each apex: comprehensive
planning, leadership, continuous performance improvement, and culture
management. Together, the four significant sets of activities contain
the essence of the organization and what the organization does.
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Applying the
Systems Approach
Good systems managers and leaders need to be good systems thinkers.
In systems engineering and management, we know about and implement systems,
the engineering process, and systems modeling. In systems thinking we
approach the world differently. In systems thinking we see patterns of
connection where others see only components, their attributes, and relationships
among components or where others see only isolated events. We understand
the essence or meaning of the system. We recognize the relationship of
each system component to the whole. We learn about a system’s functioning
by generalizing lessons learned from other systems. We include everything
that affects the system’s aim, functioning, and result. We understand
the context of the system. We know how the system came to be.
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