Talks

This page consists of a selection of talks that Arie has given over the past few years.

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  • STOCKTON LECTURE- LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL

    STOCKTON LECTURE- LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL, May-90

    Although we did not think so at the time, the 1950's and the 1960's were a relatively easy time in which to manage the oil industry. There were seven Sisters, demand grew every year more or less equal to GNP growth (we used to have heated discussions whether it would go up 5.6 or 5.7% next year) and the price of crude oil was around ...

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  • STRATEGY REVIEWS AS LEARNING

    To test what it takes to become a Learning Organisation, let us have a look at one of Shell's earlier experiments in organisational learning. Following a study made by Pierre Wack, an Internal Consultancy unit was set up which at the behest of Gareth Price started to apply an interview technique, originally pioneered by the Institute for the Future in California. Seven "trigger" questions proved quite effective to bring out a manager's view of his world. The interview notes would not produce directly the "mental models". They would be distilled into a Natural Agenda, the Axioms and the Dilemma's...

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  • THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT FOR HUMANIST ORGANISATIONS

    Madrid, May-00

    Allow me to use the language of Economics to explore those two questions "How do we produce goods and services?" and "Is the manner in which we do that nowadays different from yesterday?" The science of Economics defines the production of material wealth (i.e. that what we do in business) as a matter of combining three production factors:1) natural resources/ land, 2) capital, 3) labour ...

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