It’s a tough decade to lead a major corporation or government. Things are changing so fast and the macroeconomic situation is so complex that it’s no surprise the finger gets pointed at Managers whenever things go wrong. The travails of new leaders at Nokia and now RIM and Yahoo have also placed scrutiny on the selection criteria for Managers. It’s possibly because of this that there’s been an upsurge in research around a-periodical systems as a way of selecting leaders at all levels of organisations. Typically, this research is aimed at governmental systems and since “a-periodicity” is really a fancy way of saying “random”, the governmental system has come to be known as a “randomocracy”. Partly because I love the name and partly because I’m really interested in the practice of leadership in a digital, millennial business environment, I’ve been thinking about some randomocracy ideas could be applied to business management. Random acts of kindness – the pure randomocracy A pure r...
Thoughts on strategy in a Digital Economy