December 12, 2023 #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/e862eea7) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/78Br9NzDtkqQBsVekUsDtM) [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Vzc2VudGlhbC1keW5hbWljcy13aXRoLWRlcmVrLWh1ZHNvbg/episode/ZmMxZWUxMDYtMmU3Ny00Njk0LWJlNmYtMTM2YzViZWMzNDAy?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwiAyJbVl4qDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQFw) [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/season-4-in-2024/id1542392917?i=1000638318571) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/episode/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.transistor.fm%2Fe862eea7%2F2728333e.mp3&podcastId=3153944) #### Summary Derek shares a quick look at Season 4 of the Essential Dynamics Podcast, brought to you by Unconstrained. The new season starts January 9, 2024. Don't miss it! - We need to be able to explain how the crux of everything is management's capacity to make good decisions and stay focused on stuff. But nobody understands this and we do so much to disrespect this. - Just before I went to bed last night I thought of [[Stent analogy]] - This is the idea that when you have a blockage in an artery, it doesn't help to pump more blood into the heart, you have to remove the constraint. - how can we best discuss this in the podcast today? I'm gonna focus on that and get to weekly planning after podcast session. - get Glen talking about policy. - What has to be in place for the economy to grow? - What can policy makers do to help? - How does management attention deficit stand in the way? - What can policy makers, professionals, partners and advisors do to deal with this fact? - what about boards of directors? - [[The Management Attention Deficit Problem]] - [[Management attention - Derek's early thoughts 101016]] - In many cases the precious hours that form management attention are not carefully managed, limiting the overall organization's performance no matter what other improvement initiatives are completed. - [[230125 Focus Group Response v1 - superceded]] - Unconstrained is based on the principle that management attention is the critical resource of any organization, and that the best way to increase an organizations effectiveness is to help management apply and use its limited capacity in the most effective way. - [[230125 Focus Group Response v2]] - stating management attention is the crux is liberating - it's not me, it's physics - [[230125 Focus Group Key Points]] - ![[Pasted image 20230127143457.png]] - [[Management Attention as a Constraint]] - Barack Obama said, “By definition, if it was an easily solvable problem, or even a modestly difficult but solvable problem, it would not reach me, because, by definition, somebody else would have solved it,” he said. “So the only decisions that came were the ones that were horrible and that didn’t have a good solution. They said, ‘Let’s send this to Obama, I don’t know what to do." - [[Podcast Season 4 - Plan]] %% #### See also - -