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What your organization needs to compete in today's marketplace I've been thinking about Organizations lately. THINKING ABOUT THEM A LOT. I don't think that the new winners will be marked by a set strategy. I think that they will be marked . . . ABOVE ALL . . . by the Ability to Respond. To whatever. Whenever. So I've developed a new name/concept, which I think applies as much to the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security as it does to the Corporation. I call the new form of organization Itinerant Potential Machines. What that means is that they have a fabulous roster more...

My Candidates to Replace the MBAIn his post on this blog on June 22, 2006, business guru Tom Peters predicted the end of the MBA. Today he takes his predictions one level higher by suggesting some new degrees that should replace it. I'm going to scrap the MBA. In an age of creativity-design-innovaiton, who wants to be a "Master" of "Administration"? Master of "Paper Pushing"? Computers do that. Here are my substitutes:MFA (Master of Fine Arts) - As my friend Dan Pink writes, "The MFA is the new MBA." (Hooray, Dan! I wish I'd gotten there first with that one!)MMM/MM (Master more...

Creativity, design and innovation are today's real success toolsI am fundamentally, at some level, offended by the notion of "Master of Administration." I guess I shouldn't be offended. It was probably a damn good idea 40 or 50 years ago. I remember reading the story of the "Whiz Kids," who helped win World War II, and then turned around Ford. Robert S. McNamara, Ford President, then Defense Secretary, was the Whiz-iest of the kids. What he discovered was that the U.S. Army Air Force didn't know how many planes they had. And so he counted the planes. And it helped. A more...