All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

Peter Senge's 'Five Disciplines' of Learning Organizations. 1. Shared Vision 2. Systems Thinking 3. Mental Models 4. Team Learning 5. Personal Mastery #PeterSenge #TheFifthDiscipline

We learn less by doing things right, but much more by doing things wrong and facing failures. Those who have failed many times hold more wisdom than those who have succeeded. This applies to all areas of human knowledge. Indians don't understand & accept this fact.

Transformational leadership is all about helping people to fully realise & utilize their own potential and creating more leaders at different levels. In this process the leader driving the transformation realises his own potential and becomes a greater leader. #Leadership

The great leaders reveal true power by attracting people of excellent ability and by allowing key associates the freedom to exercise their own judgment. The person able to give power to those who can effectively exercise it gains more power in return. #Leadership #IChing

Russell L Ackoff was an American system thinker par excellence. He lists out some truths about organizations which we just deny or ignore, in his book "Management f-Laws". Presenting his 81 witty f-Laws in the tweets below, which aptly describes the managers' everyday behaviour.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-1: You can't teach an old dog or executive new tricks, or even that there are any new tricks.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-2: Knowledge is of two types, explicit and implicit, and knowing this is implicit.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-3: You rarely improve an organization as a whole by improving the performance of one or more of its parts.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-4: There is no point in asking consumers, who do not know what they want, to say what they want.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-5: All managers believe they can do their boss's job better than their boss can, but they forget that their subordinates share the same belief about themselves.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-6: For managers the only conditions under which experience is the best teacher are the ones under which no change takes place.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-7: The level of conformity in an organization is in inverse proportion to its creative ability.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-8: The best reason for recording what one thinks is to discover what one thinks and to organize it in transmittable form.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-9: No corporation should retain a business unit that is worth more outside the corporation than within it.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-10: The amount of irrationality that executives attribute to others is directly proportional to their own.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-11: The future is better dealth with using assumptions than forecasts.

Management f-Laws by Russell L. Ackoff Law-12: An organization's planning horizon is same as it's CEO's retirement horizon.