Instilling Values in an Organization Takes Time, So Be Patient
vOne of the things that always seesms to surprise people who do organizational change projects (and pretty much all IT projects are organizational change projects) is that it takes longer to change...
View ArticleContemplative Work
From Kinston, Warren. 1988. “A total framework for inquiry”. Systems Research, 5(1): 9-25. The inherent dangers in the Level VII' [the contemplative] inquiry include fixation on an incorrect idea and...
View ArticleNotice: New Boss, Same As The Old Boss…
Warren Kinston needed to take the company in a direction that, at least for the next year or so, would preclude the work I had joined with him to do. We have therefore parted ways, and I wish him the...
View ArticlePragmatist Meets Structuralist: A Web Example
Here’s a good example of what someone who is a structuralist sounds like when talking to a pragmatist, for those who’ve been following my discussions of Warren Kinston’s and Jimmy Algie’s Seven...
View ArticleExtending Levels of Work With New Management Applications
After Glenn Mehltretter’s comments about Kinston and Rowbottom’s article from 1990, I went and got copies, OCRed them, and got Warren’s permission to post them here. This is the first, from 1989. They...
View ArticleKinston & Rowbottom's "A New Model of Managing Based On Levels of Work"
Here’s the second in the set, from 1990. Warren probably hasn’t really looked at these for some time, and I know that he has taken things farther in documents coming out of his SIGMA Centre. Warren...
View ArticleKinston’s & Algie’s guide on how managers can approach decisions
For Friday, here's "Seven Distinct Paths of Decision and Action" by Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie from 1989. This paper describes the seven different approaches to decision-making, but note that it's...
View ArticleWarren Kinston on Democracy
You can’t see it until you see it. And once you see it, you can’t not see it! Last fall, Dr. Warren Kinston wrote a note on Democracy at the request of some of the dissident leaders in Thailand, where...
View ArticleName It to Change It, Because You Can’t Change What You Can’t Talk About
If you want to succeed at a creative project — and all change projects are — you will need to be particular about naming. As Dr. Warren Kinston has shown in his (please oh please soon) to be published...
View Article7 Decision Making Approaches: EMPIRICIST
Empiricists love data. Lots of data. Warren Kinston and Jimmy Algie posited that there are seven, and only seven, unique mindsets or approaches humans use when making decisions about action. This is...
View Article7 Decision Making Approaches: IMAGINIST / INTUITIONIST
[I continue my notes on Kinston & Algie’s decision systems.] As we continue with our exploration of the seven approaches to decision making that were originally developed by Jimmy Algie,...
View ArticleAccomplishment Does Not Equal Success
One of the mistakes I made early on in my career was to believe that if I had some great accomplishments that I would gain success, including things like money and community respect. This is clearly...
View ArticleWarren Kinston on Movements and Their Leadership
Some thoughts on Movements as described by Warren Kinston. I can’t imagine that they are interesting to anyone else, just here as notes for the future. Kinston, Warren. Working with Values: Software...
View ArticleHow You Talk About Deciding Affects Who Thinks You’re an Idiot
How you talk about work affects who will hire you or work with you. I was reminded of this recently. I have been talking with some senior executives at work about how to build the structure for writing...
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