Organization Designer + Researcher
Organizations tend to remain static unless there is a force greater than the inertia of the status quo. There are two basic types of force that can be applied to an organization. The first type is the “pushing” force from the dissatisfaction with the …
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I recently had the honor of being a guest on the Business 901 podcast with Joe Dager. Joe and I discussed various topics related to organization design and leading the journey to sustainable excellence. As we recorded the podcast, Joe also captured …
Leaders today face increasing demands from a variety of stakeholders. The challenge is to figure out a way to create value for all the key stakeholders without taking from one to serve another. Pressures from stakeholders combined with increasing …
When many people hear the words “design” and “designer,” they often think of fashion, interior design, or the design of everyday items such as glasses, saltshakers, and so forth. However, everything that is not created by nature is designed by humans …
Like architects of buildings, organization architects must leverage what we know (the science) of organizations and systems with what is possible and not yet imagined (the art) to develop solutions that address many constraints and the needs of …
Leading the journey to create sustainable value for multiple stakeholders requires the flexible combination of leveraging the forces and facilitators of change with leadership activities and behaviors, organizational culture, and individual leader …
Successful Organizations Organizations that have taken a systems approach to creating value for multiple stakeholders have demonstrated improving results across a comprehensive scorecard. Comprehensive means a scorecard that includes measures for …
The Challenge The challenge for the 21st-century organization is to create sustainable value for multiple stakeholders. The definition of success for all types of organizations (profit-seeking, non-profit, and government) is continuously changing …
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Search for Meaning For many leaders, spirituality is “spooky” and “smacks” of religion. Something we were told to avoid, along with politics, in polite conversation. Yet, the search for meaning and purpose is “hard-wired” into us. Note, for our …
The Challenge of Generational Cohorts It seems that leaders today are bombarded with all kinds of information and advice from both the academic and popular presses on how to lead members of the different generational cohorts working in our …
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