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A Modern System of Management
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![Is “How we manage” missing from our strategic thinking?](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/System-of-management-larger.jpg)
![The Chief Executive and the Lightbulb: How we think about performance management](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Lightbulbs.jpg)
The Chief Executive and the Lightbulb: How we think about performance management
As I talked, I noticed that the Chief Executive was no longer listening. She had gone into that state of deep thought, staring up and away into the distance; thinking intensely: thinking about something – I had no idea what. I decided not to disturb those...![4G Balanced scorecards are about more flexible management systems](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Flexibility.jpeg)
4G Balanced scorecards are about more flexible management systems
Kotter puts it very well, ” Management is about making sure the system runs in the organisation; whereas leaders choose and design the management system that the organisation needs”. In “Reinventing management”, Julian Birkinshaw writes about...![The Psychology of Management: Taking the long view](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/images.jpg)
The Psychology of Management: Taking the long view
I am quite interested in the psychology of management because I think we tend to adopt psychological models of how management works, and how change happens, without necessarily questioning their assumptions and continued validity, or applicability. I also find that...![Reinventing how we manage for today’s management challenges](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Reinventing.jpg)
Reinventing how we manage for today’s management challenges
Reinventing how we manage from first principles. Given a continuing climate of austerity, uncertainty and international competition, most executives are under pressure to improve their organisations through costs, productivity or revenues. The focus for change has...![We manage by absorbing friction – and building up heat!](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sparks.jpg)
We manage by absorbing friction – and building up heat!
What role do, and should, our management systems play in protecting from, and connecting our organisations to, the volatility and uncertainty of the outside world? At a recent management presentation I suggested that the way we manage is designed to absorb friction. ...![Managing organisations in the same ways birds manage to fly together](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/flock-of-birds.jpg)
Managing organisations in the same ways birds manage to fly together
Treat this as an off the wall, whimsical post – with a serious intent…. One thing that we all see far too much of – Management. One problem with many organisations is that we spend too much time managing, we create too many rules and practices and...![Integrating rolling and continuous budgeting with your Strategy](https://www.excitant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Rolling-budget-coin-leaf.jpg)