Dave and Derek explore reasons organizations might stay comfortably stuck...but comfortable is more risky than you might think.

Derek Hudson and Dave Kane are at Unconstrained.

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Dave and Derek discuss the pitfalls of targeting "low hanging fruit" when planning strategic improvements. They emphasize that not every improvement is beneficial and that taking the easy route can often be a distraction, or worse!

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Derek Hudson and Dave Kane are at Unconstrained.

Dave and Derek explore why it is hard to effect real change in organizations. Then they talk about how to do it anyway.

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Derek Hudson and Dave Kane are at Unconstrained.

Dave asks Derek some deep questions about Derek's recent blog post You Better Build a Birdhouse. Derek does not do a great job of answering, but important truths are highlighted nonetheless.

"We're looking for truth here. Truth can stand on it's own and it can come from anywhere. So let's get multiple voices in a room and try and understand cause and effect."

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Derek Hudson and Dave Kane are at Unconstrained.

Angela and Derek continue the conversation. "The ability to think systemically is something which we're not taught at school... and yet it is the most important skill for anybody in any kind of leadership position in the world today to have."

Visit Intelligent Management for information on Angela Montgomery and her book, The Human Constraint.

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Derek is at Unconstrained.

Angela Montgomery shares some thoughts with Derek on the origins of her upcoming book The Human Constraint.  "We cannot continue to live in a world where we are continuously undermined by the inability to think systemically."

Visit Intelligent Management for information on Angela Montgomery.

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Derek is at Unconstrained.

Dave and Derek follow up the last episode on Canada's productivity problem with their productivity prescription.

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Dave and Derek are at Unconstrained.

Dave and Derek discuss disturbing reports from the Bank of Canada that Canada's economy is facing a productivity emergency.

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Dave and Derek at Unconstrained.

In Episode 89 we "stomped all over" individual incentive plans. In this episode, Tiz, Dave and Derek talk about the real work of helping employees understand the value creation system and wanting to contribute to it.

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Tiz, Dave, and Derek are all at Unconstrained.

Unconstrained guides Tiz Benvenuto and Dave Kane join Derek to take on individual incentive schemes. Comments include: "lazy", "cop-out", "band-aid", and "quick fix." Plus they don't actually work.

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Tiz, Dave, and Derek are all at Unconstrained.