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The study of cultural anthropology has been around over one hundred years. The study of organizational culture has been around less than half as long—strongly driven by researcher, author, and MIT Professor of Management Emeritus Edgar H. Schein. Schein describes the essence of organizational culture as the learned, shared, tacit assumptions on which people base…
Ken Everett is an Australian who has lived in US, UK, Singapore and Italy. He is an Executive Fellow University of Essex Business School, and formerly worked for IBM and Wilson Learning. He is also a former school teacher. Ken is the Founder and Network Architect of TOYFNET (Think On Your Feet® Network), with 300…
Designing the Networked Organization, the new book from Australian entrepreneur Ken Everett, is a gem. The leader of TOYFNET (Think on Your Feet® Network), an affiliation of about 300 training providers in thirty countries, came to understand and appreciate the important strategic edge that networked organizations enjoy over their more traditional counterparts. While developing TOYFNET,…
The Canadian Snowbirds Demonstration Team has been thrilling audiences at high-performance air shows across North America since 1978. A branch of the Canadian Air Force, one would think such a group would be rigidly hierarchical—but it’s not. It’s really quite self-managed. One of the joys of working with the Morning Star Self-Management Institute is…
