Reflections on clarity, management, and organizational patterns.
They explore how management is understood, practiced, and learned over time.
This page brings together:
- Conceptual essays and longer reflections
- Observations drawn from practice and research
- Explorations of recurring organizational patterns
- Questions that support learning before action
These texts are not commentary and not opinion pieces.
They are written to invite reflection and understanding.
Does agile matter?
Lukas Michel | Management Insights, Lukas Michel
Agile is in fashion. Organisations initiate agile projects and expect to become more agile—often with limited facts to start with. Here is the evidence.
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How to get started as a new CEO?
Agility Insights AG, Michel Lukas
When a new CEO takes the helm, he or she normally has 100 days until expectations rise and the pressure is on to be clear about the few critical things that will move the organization forward.
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Beyond consulting: Awareness trumps telling
Lukas Michel | Management Insights, Lukas Michel
«We need a consultant to make this change happen». We have seen it all. Consultants are hired for days of analytical work to solve a simple personnel problem.
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Management, the only remaining competitive advantage
Lukas Michel | Management Insights, Lukas Michel
Michael Porter has dominated the literature and practice in the area of competitive advantage over the last 30 years. But, today’s world is dynamic.
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Agile belongs in the boardroom. Not with IT
Lukas Michel | Management Insights, Lukas Michel
There is no doubt, agile is a must have competency that makes or breaks organisations in today’s dynamic market context.
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When executive confidence and competence diverge
Lukas Michel | Management Insights, Lukas Michel
Many advisory colleagues may recall coffee conversations after social and business events with executives about management.
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Myth management by objectives
Agility Insights AG, Michel Lukas
Impact with side-effects. Just about every organization does it. And, just about every leader knows it fails to motivate employees for peak performance.
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When employee surveys show the same result, year by year
Agility Insights AG, Michel Lukas
We know the results of every employee survey before we even start it: “Communications needs to be improved”, “Strategy is not understood”, … .
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De-cluttering organization and management
Agility Insights AG, Michel Lukas
For sure this sounds familiar to you: more meetings, more reports, more presentations, more justifications, more appraisals, more goals,…
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When managers and employees go to the beach
Agility Insights AG, Michel Lukas
You have seen it. Towards the end of the year, managers and employees make a deal with themselves.
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Why This Page Exists
Some insights cannot be captured as milestones or records.
They require space for thinking, articulation, and return.
NOTES is where patterns are explored, assumptions are examined, and language is developed for making management discussable.
How to Read This Page
You do not need to read everything.
The notes are not sequential and not time-bound.
They exist to:
- Support reflection
- Deepen understanding
- Offer orientation when questions arise
Some readers visit occasionally.
Others return when clarity is needed.
Both uses are intended.
CLARITY BEFORE CHANGE
