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HashiCorp Certified - Vault Associate Course - What Is Vault?
This video provides a general introduction to HashiCorp Vault. Vault is a powerful open-source tool developed by HashiCorp that provides a secure and centralized way to manage secrets, encryption keys, and other sensitive data used in...
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ChatGPT 101 - Supercharge Your Work and Life with ChatGPT - Community and Social Involvement (Finding Causes, Volunteering, Fundraising)
In this video, we will discover different ways to volunteer our time and skills and explore the benefits of fundraising and philanthropy, social justice, environmental issues, or other causes for ideas and resources to help make a...
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Design Microservices Architecture with Patterns and Principles - When to Use Microservices Architecture - Best Practices
In this video, we will understand the scenarios and best practices for applying microservices architecture. You will learn about the characteristics of applications that are well-suited for microservices, such as large and complex...
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Conserving the Tropical Rainforest: Our Collective Responsibility
This video emphasizes the critical need for global cooperation in saving tropical rainforests, outlining actions individuals and organizations can take. It discusses sustainable farming, fair trade, recycling, and consumer activism as...
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What is Peter Senge's Learning Organization?
Peter Senge wrote best-selling book, ‘The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization‘. This book has been rated by Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books. And his big idea was the Learning...
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What are Morgan's 8 Organizational Metaphors? An Organization is Like a...
Sometimes the best way to understand something complicated and abstract is with a metaphor. Gareth Morgan suggested we can gain some good insights into the nature of organizations from 8 organizational metaphors.
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Organizations as Processes: Understanding an Organization as a Set of Processes
One way to understand the nature of an organization is as a process (the other is as a structure). In this video, we look at Organizations as Processes
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The Features of Organizations: What an Organization Needs
What does an organization need to have... The features of Organizations? Let's look at what organizations (almost) always need, if they are to work effectively.
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Why do we need Organizations? Structure vs Agility
Why do we need Organizations? The answer lies in the trade-off of Structure versus Agility.
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What are Edgar Schein's Two Organizational Cultures?
In this video, we look at two opposed cultures that Schein defined, to give us our first, and simplest, introduction to the many different organizational models available. Schein's two organizational cultures have either an authority...
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What are Charles Handy's Gods of Management?
In Charles Handy’s 1978 book, Gods of Management, he articulated four organizational cultures or models for how the organization works.
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What is Charles Handy's Shamrock Organization?
In his 1989 book, The Age of Unreason, Charles Handy looked forward to a new type of organization, the Shamrock Organization.
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What is the Matrix Organization Model?
Many large multi-national organizations eschew the simplicity of Charles Handy’s Federal Organization model. Instead, they favor the big, complex, and ugly approach that is the Matrix Model.
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What is the Adhocracy Organizational Model?
When did bureaucracy become a dirty word? Almost certainly when the idea of adhocracy emerged. The two are polar opposites: radically different ways to coordinate an organization. The one a set of rules and systems that overlay...
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What is The Agile Organization?
In a fast-moving competitive environment, where new technology can disrupt everything overnight, is Adhocracy nimble enough? Do we need an Agile Organization?
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What is Brian Robertson's Holacracy Organizational Model?
Holacracy is a form of Adhocracy, which we covered in an earlier video. But, whilst we are way past ‘peak adhocracy’, it seems that holacracy is thriving.
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What are Virtual Organizations?
Virtual Organizations... A term that has been widely used for many years now – but which is becoming even more prevalent following the impact of the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, is Virtual Organization. But what exactly is a Virtual...
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Amitai Etzioni: How Organizations Secure Compliance
How do organizations elicit compliance from their members? Amitai Etzioni addressed this question, concluding that there are three types of organization, each wielding a different sort of power.
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What is Empowerment? The Organization Giving up its Power
What happens when organizations give up their power to the people within them? The answer is 'empowerment'.
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William Ouchi: Theory Z Organizations and Motivation
One of our most popular videos is the one about Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. As a result, people have asked me about Theory Z. Theory Z, which was developed by William Ouchi, to describe the adoption of Japanese ideas of...
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Edgar Schein's 3 Levels of Organizational Culture
Edgar Schein, of the Sloan School of Management, was interested in understanding organizational culture. He analyzed organizations into three distinct levels of organizational culture: artifacts (the surface manifestations of culture),...
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National Culture within an Organization: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cultural Dimensions
In his book, Culture’s Consequences, Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede, brought the term Organizational Culture into common use. His original work at IBM identified 4 dimensions of national culture. Later, he extended this to 6...
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How we Work: Geert Hofstede's 6 Cross-Organization Cultural Dimensions
In the 1980s, the Dutch cultural psychologist Geert Hofstede returned to the study of culture, but focused on an analysis of organizational practices. The authors identified six cross-organizational dimensions that separate and define...
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Harold Geneen: Data-driven Charismatic Organization
Harold Geneen was a successful business leader that transformed an ailing business, ITT, into a Data-driven Charismatic Organization. Under his leadership, it grew and grew.