Organization Designer + Researcher + Teacher
While Dr. W. Edwards Deming, and others, have estimated that the organizational system is responsible for a large percentage of problems and performance in organizations (70-85%), it is not at all clear how he (or the others) came to this conclusion nor if it is based on any empirical evidence. Organizational systems do not exist without the humans …
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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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Have you ever been surprised by the announcement of a new organization policy? Have you ever thought, “what were they thinking?” What did you say to your coworkers? What did you say to your boss? What did you do? In many cases, if just a little more time was taken consulting key stakeholders as part of the purpose and requirements component of …
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 competition and advances in technology provide many dilemmas but many opportunities for the …
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 (consciously or unconsciously). Thus, our human-created organizations can be purposefully designed …
