An introduction to Steve Denning's blog: Rethink

Since January 2011, my daily blog, Radical Management, has moved to: http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/

In November 2010, I reviewed a large number of books that discuss in various ways the ongoing reinvention of management and I presented my synthesis of the five interlocking principles of radical management in a twelve-part series of articles. Since then, I have been writing on a daily basis and applying the principles to a variety of current management issues. You can follow those blog posts here.

Some key articles include:

Reinventing management: key principles

Reinventing Management: Part 1: Overview

The practices to implement the five principles:

Reinventing Management: Part 2: Delighting the client

Reinventing Management: Part 3: From controller to enabler

Reinventing Management: Part 4: Coordination: From bureaucracy to dynamic linking

Reinventing Management: Part 5: From value to values

Reinventing Management Part 6: From command to conversation

Reinventing Management Part 7: Implementing the transition

Measuring implementation

Part 8:  Measuring customer delight at the organizational level

Part 9: Measuring customer delight at the working level through user stories

Part 10; Measuring customer delight: sizing and prioritizing user stories

Part 11: Measuring time as a competitive weapon

Part 12. Measuring Outcomes in real time: Social media

Other key posts include:

• The principles of radical management enable you to see immediately what’s wrong with Google’s almost universally admired mission of “organizing the world’s information” and see why it is leading Google astray.

• The principles enable you peruse the vast amount of hoopla about Apple, and decipher the relatively small number of elements that are really driving its extraordinary gains over the last decade.

• The principles reveal with stunning clarity why apparently successful exemplars of old school management like General Electric [GE] and Wal-Mart [WMT] are going down the tubes unless they change their ways.

• You can see why why Salesforce.com [CRM] has become so incredibly successful.

• The principles enable you to see why  Juniper [JNPR] is driving Cisco [CSCO] into the dust

• The principles enable you to decipher an article in, say, Harvard Business Review or Strategy+Business and see immediately whether it’s part of the future or a trip back into the past.
• The principles of radical management can also be applied to public sector activities like government, health, education or space exploration.

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Steve Denning’s most recent book is: The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace For the 21st Century (Jossey-Bass, 2010).

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