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	<title>Perspectives in Management</title>
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	<description>Commentary on patterns and practices in organisational management by John Forrest</description>
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		<title>The shape of things to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puzzle pieces come in all different shapes and sizes. The one thing they all have in common is that the edge of each piece will touch the edge of another piece. The notion of &#8220;top&#8221; or &#8220;bottom&#8221; isn&#8217;t embodied in the piece, it&#8217;s in the picture that the piece is helping to form.
Looking at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A small management puzzle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous posts have talked about the need for a picture which helps people to put all the management pieces together for big picture results.
Here&#8217;s a small example:

This puzzle describes a common transformation pattern &#8211; moving to a multi-channel customer service delivery model. You find this in government and commercial organisations when cost pressures have led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration Governance &#8211; We have the technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 06:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a look at the Google Wave demonstration from the recent Google I/O conference. The full presentation is more than 1 hour long and as each feature rolls on to the next you start to realise that you&#8217;re seeing a glimpse into a mind altering way of interacting with people anywhere at any time.
Anyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the Pieces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking the metaphor of the alignment puzzle a little further&#8230;
Organisations exist to amplify the energies of a group of people and achieve that which individuals alone cannot. The smallest &#8216;parts&#8217; which make up an organisation are, of course, people. While there are material aspects to an organisation (e.g. physical assets, brand, information, technology etc.), these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piecing Together Alignment Puzzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 05:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked on a jigsaw puzzle without using the picture on the front of the box knows how hard it is to put things together without a clear frame of reference. Should this blue and white piece go up the sky part or is it white caps on the water? While this may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaboration &#8211; Teamwork or Treason?</title>
		<link>http://managementalignment.com/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 05:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wiktionary, the on-line dictionary defines the verb collaborate as:

To work together with others to achieve a common goal.

Let&#8217;s collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.


To cooperate treasonably as with an enemy occupation force in one&#8217;s country.

If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.



What a perfect representation of real world collaboration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organisational Cells</title>
		<link>http://managementalignment.com/blog/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 13:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of the mind boggling material available for free at iTunesU, I was listening to an MIT lecture on Cellular Mechanisms by Gerald Schneider.
The lecture was an introduction to neurons and he started out by describing what he called &#8220;the primitive cellular mechanisms&#8221;.
These are the systems which all cells share:
irritability (response to something in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Change: The Art of Balancing</title>
		<link>http://managementalignment.com/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 06:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This excerpt from Jeanie Daniel Duck&#8217;s article in HBR really struck a chord with me.
The problem for most executives is that managing change is unlike any other managerial task they have ever confronted. One COO at a large corporation told me that when it comes to handling even the most complex operational problem, he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alignment and Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Management Alignment presentation
In the previous posts, I&#8217;ve described how different stakeholder groups tend to hold different perspectives of how their organisation works and the role they play. What are these perspectives? Well, for our purposes, a perspective represents a common point of view held by members of a stakeholder group. In some groups these perspectives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governance 2.0</title>
		<link>http://managementalignment.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 04:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slideshare preso on Governance 2.0
(I&#8217;m having problems with the embedded viewer)
I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time over the past few years trying trying to sharpen my messages which describe the recurring patterns I see in enterprise management.
I&#8217;ve been fortunate to see a lot of different management contexts over the years from inside to outside and [...]]]></description>
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