Post-Modern Management – Today’s
Leadership Approach
November 13, 2012
Karl Moore, Ph.D.
Generals Fight the Battles of Their Youth
Ebbs, Flows and Residual Impact of Business
Fads
Self Managing Teams
Core Competencies
Horizontal Organizations
Business Process Re-engineering
Continuous Improvement/Learning Organization
Empowerment
Workout
Visioning
Cycle Time/Speed
Benchmarking
One Minute Managing
Corporate Culture
Intrapreneuring
Influence Index
Just in Time/Kanban
Matrix
MBWA
Portfolio Management
Restructuring/Delayering
“Excellence”
Management by Objectives
Conglomeration
„Theory Z‟
T-Group Training
Brainstorming
Theory X and Theory Y
Satisfiers/Dissatisfiers
Managerial Grid
Quality Circles/TQM
Wellness
Decentralisation
Value Chain
Zero Base Budgeting
Strategic Business Units
„Theory Z‟
Experience Curve
Diversification
Decision Trees
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Research Base
+ 300 interviews with C Suite Executives in North America, Europe and
Asia
Sir Richard Branson, General Martin Dempsey, Muhammad Yunus,
Calin Rovinescu, Dick Evans, Pierre Beaudoin, Robert Brown, Michael
Sabia, Robert Dutton, Moya Greene, Kevin Lynch, Pierre Lortie,
Robert Milton, Arthur Porter, Mike Roach, Paul Tellier, Caryn Lerner,
Robert Rabinovitch, Andre Navarra, Sheila Fraser, etc..
+ Co-teaching a MBA course, Role of the CEO with Dick Evans, just
retired CEO of Alcan and Paul Tellier, Bombardier, CN, Clerk
+ 350 interviews with under 35s in the Canada, the U.S., Japan and
Europe
The Modern Viewpoint
 People over 45 are Moderns, mainly
 Faith in Science to bring us to a bright future
 We can KNOW thanks to the scientific method
 Relentless Upward Progress
 Many modernists believed that by rejecting tradition they
could discover radically new ways of making art,
architecture, etc..
Some Central Aspects of the
Postmodern Worldview
 Less
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Truth than there use to be, more truth than there use to be –
The death of Metanarratives and the rise of micronarratives
Truth is tested against standards accepted by the community a al
Wikipedia, the democraticzation of the truth
A decline in hierarchy
From the Individual to Collaboration
A sense of things beyond science and analysis – Emotions!
The search for meaning and purpose
All this is amplified by technology, particularly, Social Media
PostModern Medicine
 “Doc, I have 3 Theories of what is wrong with me – what do you
think?”
The Doctor
 “Have you seen this article?”
The Patient
 From Quacks to Complimentary Medicine
The Doctor
The Patient
“it’s about the subject rather then the illness, we must look at the
patients subjectively, something physicians fail to do” - Dr. Saleem
Razack, Assistant Dean of Admissions, McGill Faculty of Medicine
Working With/Reaching Postmoderns
1.
Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to
An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
Working With/Reaching Postmoderns
1.
Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to
An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2.
The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation
Seek Diversity and Embrace It
Working With/Reaching Postmoderns
1.
Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to
An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2.
The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation
Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3.
The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”
Go With the Flow
Working With/Reaching Postmoderns
1.
Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to
An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2.
The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation
Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3.
The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”
Go With the Flow
4.
A Renewed Need For Purpose
Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
Working With/Reaching Postmoderns
1.
Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to
An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2.
The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation
Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3.
The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”
Go With the Flow
4.
A Renewed Need For Purpose
Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
5. Rethink the Meaning of Career and Work/Life Balance
Lose the Blackberry – At Least on the Weekend
Working With/Reaching Postmoderns
1.
Privileging All Voices - From An Age of Deference to
An Age of Reference – My story is as good as your story
Listen More, Talk Less
2.
The Rise of the Periphery – The Hunt For Innovation
Seek Diversity and Embrace It
3.
The Importance of Emotions – “Just the Facts”
Go With the Flow
4.
A Renewed Need For Purpose
Work and Life - Must Have Meaning
5. Rethink the Meaning of Career and Work/Life Balance
Lose the Blackberry – At Least on the Weekend
6. Find a Boomer Mentor - to Learn Wisdom and Foolishness
Karl Moore
RETHINKING LEADERSHIP
The Decline but Not Fall of Hierarchy –
What Young People Really Want
The Best Way To Innovation? - An
Important Lesson from India
Young People stop just Texting Me and
Give me a Call once in a while? PLZ
From Social Networks to Collaboration
Network: the Next Evolution of Social
Media for Business
HBS’s Amy Edmondson On the Death of
Teams