Working in, leading and designing agile and adaptable organizations has become highly complex. To optimize both efficiency and innovation, and ultimately meet client needs, enterprises had to look beyond their own organizational boundaries for solutions. In a world where global…
Last November, I blogged about culture being the formative messenger or genetic code of organizations. To communicate and enable its performance, an organization invents or discovers a pattern of basic operating assumptions. In the words of Edgar Schein, organizations use…
For most people, the key to becoming a better leader lies not in training or skills development, but in self-awareness. Les McKeown Whether we are leading a team, an organization or ourselves through uncertainty, it is what we are…
Earlier this month, I was presented with a complex set of choices, which I knew would require some time to pass before I could make a decision. Instead of mulling over these choices every day and subsequently elevating my stress…
Culture, whether bound by organizational or national borders, contains layers of complexity within its definition. One of these layers (behaviours) is visible to the eye while others can be deeply rooted beliefs and assumptions rarely noticed or discussed by its…
In a recent blog, Collaboration Platforms — Social & Technical & Environmental, I specified that collaboration is emerging as the standard for organization design. Organization design is a business solution or process that produces (designs) an organization’s structure, roles, relationships, systems and…
Strategic planning is a coordination tool used to allocate resources and develop business strategies, goals and action plans that deliver on an enterprise’s vision and value proposition. Taking uninterrupted time to formulate strategies and a plan for organizational alignment has…
Meditation is a practice aimed at strengthening concentration and stilling the mind. Both of these outcomes are often accomplished by focusing one’s attention on a single point —the flame of a candle, a mantra, the breath’s inhale and exhale, a…
(Average Reading Time: 6 minutes, 30 seconds) written by Helen Maupin and David Zinger Imagine a 20th century pinball machine complete with its delightful “bells and whistles” ringing in your ears while you chalk up points manipulating a silver ball…
Within today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environment that has now become our New Normal experience, many methods for designing and organizing workplaces exist. However, these approaches typically separate rather than integrate the social and technical systems in organizations. …
In 1967, The Young Rascals sang, “How can I be sure in a world that’s constantly changing?” At that point in time, the world was attempting to shake off the conformity to standards that prevailed as a result of the…
In last week’s blog, Mindfulness — In Pursuit of Wisdom, I equated mindfulness or calm awareness in the present moment to an elevated state of consciousness. Being conscious of one’s thoughts, words and deeds and their impact in the world provides…
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