Business Book Zingers: My Organisation is a Jungle
July 3, 2008 by David Zinger
Filed under Business
Can you see a Red Monkey in 3D.
by David Zinger
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Are you ready to perceive, think, and act differently in your organization? Can you leave the safety of the square cubicle for the adventure of innovative disturbances.
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Jef Staes wrote My Organization is a Jungle an innovative book offering new metaphors ranging from 3D management to the Red Monkey. The book is not a simple read but it will get you thinking and looking at organizations and innovation in a new way.
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The new manager or employee thrives on information, feels at ease with turbulence, “they need movement, unpredictability and adventure.”
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Red Monkeys are key. A Red Monkey is a confrontational idea which disturbs the balance in people, teams and organisations. It is an idea that challenges established values and processes and thus generates both considerable support and resistance: it is therefore an opportunity for some and a threat to others. Innovation is the result of a Red Monkey which has survived the initial conflict between these two opposing points of view (p. 48).
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Jef Staes has 10 videos up on his You Tube Site. Watch the one below or click here to go to his video site.
