– Available on Demand – How do leaders confront the challenge of aligning their organizations for agility without adding being stymied by complexity? This webcast will highlight several concepts that business and HR leaders alike can use to simplify their organizations.
-Available On Demand- Organizations are like Rubik’s Cubes. A leader cannot twist one side of the cube without affecting the others. So how can leaders move forward with improvement efforts while still maintaining a healthy and sustainable organization?
-Available On Demand- Join author and organization change expert, Reed Deshler, on the Wharton School of Business radio show, Leadership in Action on Sirius XM 111.
-Available On Demand- Join author and organization change expert, Reed Deshler, on the Wharton School of Business radio show, Leadership in Action on Sirius XM 111.
– 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.