Management Innovation Is Going To Be The

Whatever You Shoot Is Dead For A While Before It Starts To Stink. The Same Goes For Strategies. How Many Organizations Carry This Dead Thing Around With Them, Unaware Of Its Irrelevancy Until It Is Too Late?

Over The Centuries, Religion Has Become Institutionalized, And In The Process Encrusted With Elaborate Hierarchies, Top-heavy Bureaucracies, Highly Specialized Roles And Reflexive Routines.

All Too Often, Legacy Management Practices Reflexively Perpetuate The Past - By Over-weighting The Views Of Long-tenured Executives, By Valuing Conformance More Highly Than Creativity And By Turning Tired Industry Nostrums Into Sacred Truths.

In An Ideal World, An Individual's Institutional Power Would Be Correlated Perfectly With His Or Her Value-add. In Practice, This Is Seldom The Case.

When A Politician Bends The Truth Or A Ceo Breaks A Promise, Trust Takes A Beating.