– Available on Demand – As business leaders, we all want the same things—market differentiation, robust barriers to competition, and the ability to attract and keep customers. While there may not be a magical or even singular formula to make these things happen, a few companies—like Amazon, Apple, and Uber…
– Session Slides Available – As today’s market continues to increase in complexity and speed, alignment leaders can help organizations stay ahead of the game. Alignment leaders drive organizations to recognize choices and trade-offs, support change, ensure alignment across all business systems, and build organizational capacity. However, what does it mean to be an effective alignment leader?
– Session Slides Available – After you’ve spent time and money to develop your organization design, how will you successfully implement it in your organization? How do you ensure a new design will take root within your business culture?
– Available On Demand – After you’ve spent time and money to develop your organization design, how will you successfully implement it in your organization? How do you ensure a new design will take root within your business culture? What resources will you need for implementation and how long can you reasonably expect it to take?
An unimplemented design expends resources and leaves potential benefits on the table. However, implementing a design remains one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today.
– Session Slides Available – When it comes to your company’s organization design do you focus too much on best practices at the expense of differentiation, maximizing distinctive capabilities or organizational efficiencies? Are you equipped to lead truly transformational change? What you don’t know can hurt your organization.
Altering the organization’s structure might be necessary, but approaching change by changing the organization chart alone is insufficient in most cases. Over the years, a pseudo-science has emerged that focuses … Boxology: The Mythical Science of Organizational Change
Organizations often have their own specific third rails—sensitive topics that are so highly charged that no one feels they can survive trying to address a problem or change needed. Sometimes … High-Stakes Conversations
So you have to make cuts. Make sure they’re the right cuts. “Here I am—most unwelcome, I know. Against my own will, too, since no one loves a messenger who brings with him bad news.” Sophocles’ play Antigone expresses well the distaste of delivering bad news. It’s one of the toughest parts of being a leader. And often the bad news is that costs must be cut.
We all deal with a flood of information. Spam, unwanted correspondence, and irrelevant information stuff our inboxes and voicemail. It can be difficult—despite sophisticated technological communication systems—to get clear and relevant information.
Only by living in a house do we come to know intimately the many disadvantages of our particular structure. Depending on our attitude, this may become all we see. We may long for another house – one without the downsides that daily irritate us. We romanticize about how much better our lives would be in that other house, without those issues that have fatigued us. But we may learn that another house brings a new set of downsides. Sometimes it makes sense to give up our current structure and move to another house, but sometimes we learn we’ve just traded one set of problems for another.