Founder at Organization Design Studio, Ltd.
Leaders who have successfully led organizations to achieve sustainable excellence focused their time on nine key activities (Latham, 2013). These nine key activities form a leadership system. Leadership is part “art” and part “science”, the leadership system could be considered the “science” of leading transformation. The Leadership System is the …
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Leading the journey to sustainable excellence requires the organization architect understand and leverage the forces and facilitators of change; develop and implement a leadership system, collaborative leadership style, and their individual strengths; and develop a culture of service. The Leadership & Design Blueprint combines two …
The definition of success for organizations of all types (profit-seeking, non-profit, and government) is continuously changing and increasingly complex. From the mid-1940s to the 1970s the limited global competition allowed business leaders in the U. S. to focus mainly on financial results. Due to increasing competition, in the 1980s quality became …
I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Chad McAllister the host of The Everyday Innovator podcast, author of Turning Ideas into Market-Winning Products, and founder of Product Innovation Educators. Chad is a Top 40 Product Management Influencer and a Top 10 Innovation Blogger. In this interview, we explored a variety of topics related to …
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Everyone wants to have a great organization with ever-improving performance. But, as Dr. Deming used to say, “by what method?” Scenario 1 Leaders seem to have an insatiable appetite for new management fads and initiatives. And yet, there is seemingly little progress toward creating the performance they desire. I once worked with an organization …
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Organizations today face increasing pressure from multiple stakeholders and relentless global competition, forcing them to become more innovative in everything they do and produce (Latham, 2013). What is needed is nothing short of a renaissance of organization thinking and design. The organization architect of the future will need to master both …
The definition of success for all types of organizations (profit-seeking, non-profit, and government) is continuously changing and increasingly complex. From the mid-1940s to the 1970s the limited global competition allowed business leaders to focus mainly on financial results. The “party” ended sometime around 1980 when Xerox woke up to a …
I recently had the honor of being a guest on the Business 901 podcast with Joe Dager. Joe and I discussed a variety of topics related to organization design and leading the journey to sustainable excellence. As we recorded the podcast, Joe also captured the video. This video is the entire interview. …
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This video is an excerpt from the Business 901 Podcast that I did with host Joe Dager in 2016. In this video, we discuss some of the challenges associated with systems thinking along with some thoughts on the potential of Big Data. We begin this discussion with some background on the issues with education and systems thinking. Then we briefly …
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In this Business901 podcast segment, we discuss the need for all 14 steps in the Path to Sustainable Excellence, the need for personal change, and setting the example. Here are a few additional thoughts and comments on the three main points in the video. 14 Steps - Do you have to do them all? In this segment of the Business901 podcast, Joe Danger …
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