HOW ACUPUNCTURE POINTS REALLY WORK

Drawing How Companies Really Work

not the nice, neat managerial offices but the factory, design studio, or sales department-and take a good look. In one corner, a group of people are huddled in dehate over a vexing lo problem. In another, someone is negotiating with a customer halfway around the world on the Internet. Everywhere you look, people and products are moving, crisscrossing this way and that. You get a snapshot of the...

How do enzymes really work?

My understanding is that “reflections” can cover a multitude of sins. I have previously written a brief history of my career, and do not want to duplicate that exposition (1). Instead, this “reflection” will trace a primary focus of my laboratory for many decades, namely how do enzymes achieve their remarkable catalytic efficiency? (Indeed this has been a focal point of the field of biochemistr...

How process enterprises really work.

Many companies have succeeded in reengineering their core processes, combining related activities from different departments and cutting out ones that don't add value. Few, though, have aligned their organizations with their processes. The result is a form of cognitive dissonance as the new, integrated processes pull people in one direction and the old, fragmented management structures pull the...

How to Make Employee Networks Really Work

Organigraphs: drawing how companies really work.

Walk into any organization and you will get a snapshot of the company in action--people and products moving every which way. But ask for a picture of the company and you will be given the org chart, with its orderly little boxes showing just the names and titles of managers. Now there's a more revealing way to depict the people and operations within an organization--an approach called the organ...