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.
Have we reached the tipping point beyond traditional management?
Management Insights, Lukas Michel
The third session of the 2019 Global Drucker Forum in Vienna on “Ecosystem Insights – Rethinking the Organisation” offers early signs and the answer to that question.
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The emergence of organizational alignment
Mirror Mirror, Lindsay Uittenbogaard
When large social, industrial, or organizational changes impact the contexts in which people work, a key question arises: How can people align across organisations on an ongoing basis to perform well?
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How do we measure success in people-centric ecosystems?
Agility Insights USA, Herb Nold
While tangible, financial measures are important, we prefer to define success by the underlying attributes of successful organizational ecosystems.
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Call the doctor!!!
Agility Insights USA, Herb Nold
In order to avoid an expensive and aimless wandering from consultant to consultant CEOs should take a diagnostic approach to evaluating their ecosystem. Think of it as a doctor.
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Does agile matter?
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
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
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
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
Management Insights, Lukas Michel
Many advisory colleagues may recall coffee conversations after social and business events with executives about management.
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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
