What's the Constraint You Don't Know You Have?

About this episode

Angela Montgomery discusses how unseen thinking problems can hinder organizations and presents a framework for addressing these issues.

Send us Fan Mail What if the thing holding you and your organisation back isn't a market problem, a resource problem, or even a people problem — but a thinking problem you can't yet see? This week's guest, Angela Montgomery, has spent three decades helping leaders discover exactly that. As author of The Human Constraint and co-founder of Intelligent Management, she brings together the work of W. Edwards Deming and Eliyahu Goldratt into a practical framework for leading in complexity. In thi...

People in this episode

Host: Gerry Murray

Guest: Angela Montgomery

Topics covered

• leadership
• organizational constraints
• complexity
• thinking problems
• management frameworks

Keywords

• leadership
• constraints
• thinking problems
• management
• complexity
• W. Edwards Deming
• Eliyahu Goldratt

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Intelligent Management

Books & works: The Human Constraint

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