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Six years ago I could have made the M&A exercise of my life. I sold my company in a spectacular transaction who made me a millionaire, at least on paper :-) Unfortunately my stocks where stocked in a “lock-up-period” and as you al know, the rest is history.

If I’ve had the knowledge then that I have today – especially after the presentation at Wharton by Habir Singh – the world would have been different. At least in my perspective. Some of the insights presented was “right on” – the idea on looking on the opponents upside instead of you own win, would have made a huge difference in the negotiations we had at the time.

Do you have any experiences your self? Please share.

Please listen to Mr. Singhs insights at tell what you think. (The file is 4,3 MB)

In the book “Idealized Design” by Russ Ackoff a. o. they offers practical and common sense methods, based on proven results to allow organizations to not only learn from mistkaes but to develop processes to remove the possibility of mistakes in the future, not just “reengineering”, but a revolution in the way your organization is run.

In this little Podcast on idealized design Mette is interviewing Russ about the concept his the book. (The file is 1,29 MB)

Have you read the book? What do you think about it? What does the concept og systemic thinking mean to you in your context? Please share :-)

A few of you have asked me over the last days about where you can find interesting podcasts worth listening to. Well, there are lots and lots of resources out there - just try to google and youl’ll see what I mean…

A good startingpoint though could be IT Conversations, which - in fact -is more about anything else than IT.

Maybe you should start out with Clayton Christensen, Malcolm Gladwell or even Bob Metcalfe?

If you find some interesting podcasts - please share.