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…
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…
(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. …
Wayne Dyer refers to mindfulness as paying attention to “what’s happening right here and right now, independent of my opinion about it.” In today’s business jargon, mindful people are those who have excellent social, cultural and emotional intelligence and skills. From…
Whether you are a business owner, an employee, an internal training specialist, a keynote speaker, an event organizer or an organization designer, you are being impacted by a trend some refer to as “experience innovation.” This new discipline moves away from…
What do you see as the allure of working or playing on a team? Learning a new skill? Making new friends? Increasing your happiness quotient, i.e., your positive emotions? Martin Seligman discovered the difference between extremely happy and extremely miserable…
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. messages.365greetings.com Last week’s blog created such a positive response from readers I decided to continue along its theme of workplace wellbeing. Wellbeing, from my perspective, focuses our attention on what we want to…
It’s time we wake up to the fact we have created toxic workplace environments that may not be killing us outright but certainly are destroying our health, happiness, humanity and creativity. Unfortunately, this has been going on far too long. …
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