This is a three-part blog, click here to read Part I and Part II. The synergy of changing values and economic necessity is transforming capitalism. Patricia Aburdene, Megatrends 2010 When American futurist, Patricia Aburdene, wrote the above passage, she was…
This is a three-part blog, click here to read Part I and Part III. In my July 2011 blog, Emerging Organization Designs – Part I: Models of Form I wrote about strategy shaping organizational design. Jay Galbraith (1995) furthers understanding…
As a dedicated blogger, I am particularly interested in the shift we experienced this summer within social media networks. From a personal perspective, I found myself filtering out at least 50% of what I typically participated in on a daily…
Co-authors of this three-part blog on the Adaptive Enterprise are STS-RT Discovery Team members: Doug Austrom, Don de Guerre, Bob Laliberte, Helen Maupin, Bernard Mohr and Carolyn Ordowich. Click here for Part II and Part III. Our problem is not…
I find it interesting that in the business world we still debate what, as well as how, to measure individual performance. This is a main reason why I never wanted a career in management. Although I am a good team…
Trust from their workforce is no longer a guarantee for many organizational leaders. The public’s exposure to senior executive greed has generated much skepticism and mistrust of authority figures. Although many contemporary leaders may still believe their responsibility to society…
In a 25-year organizational consulting career, most of my time has been spent supporting enterprises to move from leader-managed teams to self-managing teams. The main reasons for this evolution revolve around profitability, productivity (improvement and innovation) and quality of working…
Are you feeling stretched to your maximum attending to the competing demands in your life? With all that you have to do is it difficult to choose a right course of action? Once you have chosen, are you able to…
For several weeks, I blogged about three new forms of Adaptive Enterprises illustrating the emerging picture of our human evolution in organizing work and workplaces. The first of these and potentially the most commonly experienced is decentralized hierarchy, which primarily…
I recently blogged about three new workplace contexts in which we find ourselves plying our 21st century trades – Adaptive Enterprise Models. Of course the real stress test for new thought models is “Do they hold up against recent evidence…
Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal…
Organizational designs that facilitate variety, change and speed are sources of competitive advantage. Jay Galbraith, 1995 Organization design — the reshaping of organization structure and roles — attempts to effectively align structure, processes, rewards, employee skills (including mind sets) and…
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