A global healthcare supplier is learning to increase the efficiency and throughput of its new product development process by rigorously balancing workload and capacity. By deliberately focusing its resources on fewer projects during any one period, the company has nearly doubled its project hit rates on milestones from 43% to over 80%.
Policy makers who seek to protect society from people struggling with substance abuse often end up becoming addicts themselves. They become addicted, albeit unwittingly, to quick fix solutions which temporarily address social problems but undermine society’s ability to implement more permanent and fundamental solutions.
Systems thinking can be viewed as a spiritual practice which involves seeing connections, making
positive choices, and cultivating personal strengths. When approached from this perspective, the work of systems thinking is to enable people to uncover and make connections in service of the whole.
Increase organization-wide productivity in sustainable ways by choosing a new way of working that emphasizes results and renewal over effort, and then using six strategies to energize this transition.
Build the foundation for reducing overload in your organization and increasing people’s ability to sustain their energy and focus on their top priorities. Here’s how …
A positive, action-oriented “can-do” culture should lead to unmitigated productivity. However, it does not. Trying to do too much leads many people to accomplish less.
Organizational overload is a troubling fact of today’s business culture. The more overloaded and chaotic the organization, the more difficult it is for the majority of people to do their best and most important work. Typical explanations of the problem – external factors such as market pressures and 24/7 technologies, or the unreliability of poorly organized individual performers – do not give organizations much leverage for solving it.
Since how people think has a strong influence on their effectiveness, it helps to ensure that your beliefs and assumptions hold support the results you want to achieve. Learn this six-step process to re-examine your individual and collective assumptions.
Developing the awareness and will to make fundamental individual changes comes from thinking systemically. Developing the ability to implement these changes in service of the whole is a result of acting systemically.
Lewis Thomas, the award-winning medical essayist, observed, “When you are confronted by any complex social system … with things about it that you’re dissatisfied with and anxious to fix, you cannot just step in and set about fixing with much hope of helping. This is one of the sore discouragements of our time.”
Consider the following headlines all based on true stories, which epitomize Thomas’s insight:
These stories share specific characteristics:
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