Governance

Investment-based Budgeting (white paper)

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
systemic approach versus traditional oversight and audit (article)

SOX AND MICRO-MANAGEMENT
how regulations are used as an excuse for costly disempowerment (article)

MANAGING EXPECTATIONS
systemic planning instead of lectures, hurdles, and bureaucracy (article)

HEADCOUNT CAPS
caps actually drive costs up, not down! (article)

FULL COST
do you know how important your business and cost planning processes are? (article)

THE ROLE OF STEERING COMMITTEES
a productive way to engage the business, or a bureaucratic albatross? (article)

CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER
some simple guidelines make the difference between a Chief Compliance Officer and a Chief Scapegoat (article)

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS AND CORPORATE CULTURES
why, in both cases, some work and some don't (article)

FULL COST
do you know how important your business and cost planning processes are? (article)

Governance Without Bureaucracy and Disempowerment:
how to ensure proper controls without getting in people's way (speech)

What Exactly Are Ethics and Integrity? (speech)

The "Golden Rule" of organizational design: empowerment

Cultural principles (behaviors) are crafted in any or all of the following themes:

Fundamentals: Internal Economy (Resource Governance)

{EMov} RESOURCE GOVERNANCE: The Internal Economy: how to apply market principles within organizations to make sense of budgeting, rate-setting, project-approval, and accounting processes. (book)

{EMim} RESOURCE GOVERNANCE: The Internal Economy Implementation Strategies. (book)

Market Economics Inside Corporations:
how to eliminate backlogs and manage priorities rationally (speech)

Great People Aren't Enough:
great leaders design healthy organizations where normal people can succeed (speech)

(change process)