by chriscurnow | Jul 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
This PBS Frontline program re-broadcast on the Australian ABC program Four Corners on Monday night is chilling viewing. It follows on from our commentary on NASA a few days ago where we observed that an organisation can become poisonous. NASA, at least has high ideals...
by chriscurnow | Jul 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
Images of Organization – Gareth Morgan Morgan presents a methodology for analysing organisations using the notion of metaphor. He argues strongly that developing metaphors "create ways of seeing and shaping organizational life." After a brief overview...
by chriscurnow | Jul 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t caught up with it, BOSS magazine has a nice roundup of news from the journals each month. Unfortunately they don’t put the roundup on the website which is a pity. Also unfortunately, one of the articles that caught my eye this month Lessons...
by chriscurnow | Jul 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
Congratulations to Crooked Timber. One year old on July 8. There is a certain culture of blogs that started about one year ago. Can’t quite put my finger on it but there is something about them.
by chriscurnow | Jul 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
Accordng to this weekend’s Australian Financial Review, corporate executioners have a tough time [payment required]. On one level, chriscurnow.com finds it pretty hard to work up a lot of sympathy for people who wield the axe in corporations. They take the...
