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Recipe for Success: How 3 Organization Design Principles Helped a Business in Crisis

Recipe for Success: How 3 Organization Design Principles Helped a Business in Crisis

The last few months have been difficult for all organizations. In this environment, the value of understanding how to align strategy, capabilities and tradeoffs/choices is more important than ever.

Executives can lead teams to success with effective change management.

Effective Change Management: 4 Ways Executives Can Lead Teams to Success

Executives that can look beyond their own self-interest to prioritize the needs of the organization as a whole will achieve greater success.

Do you use consistent leadership or Agile leadership?

Consistent Leadership vs. Agile Leadership: What Kind of Leader Are You?

Is your leadership style more agile or consistent? Understanding your personal tendencies will help you to select the right people for your team and to work with them in the most effective ways.

Successful organizational transformation change partners

Four Essential Practices for Becoming a Successful Transformational Change Partner

In a recent post, we explored the role of the change partner as an essential facilitator who helps alignment leaders initiate and maintain organizational alignment. The change partner not only provides critical feedback and support to the leader, but is also responsible for much of the heavy lifting throughout the transformational change implementation process. Becoming an effective change partner requires

Eliminate anti-metrics that disrupt organizational performance and focus on the "metrics that matter".

Metrics that Matter: Eliminating “Anti-Metrics” That Disrupt Organizational Performance

Aligning metrics with organizational strategy and desired behaviors helps you achieve optimal results. Make sure “anti-metrics” are not interfering with organizational success.

Futurism and understanding emerging business trends

Futurism: Understanding Emerging Business Trends

Being a futurist means paying attention to new patterns and trends and developing possible scenarios for the future. What is the best way to build the future smartly, thoughtfully, and effectively?

Subtly toxic cultures can impair organizational effectiveness

Fix Your Subtly Toxic Culture to Improve Organizational Effectiveness

Learn two major tactics that can effectively address subtly toxic cultures, prevent important decision delays help improve an organization’s effectiveness.

What is Organizational Alignment?

What is Organizational Alignment & How Can it Support Strategic Goals?

The best organizations are well-oiled machines. Using the cube model as an alignment tool can keep your business running at optimal efficiency and productivity.

Strategic Mindedness - Seeing the Forest Through The Trees

Strategic Mindedness: Can You See the Forest Through the Trees?

Six ways strategic mindedness or acting and thinking strategically, will improve your business outcomes and strengthen your leadership abilities

Understanding and optimizing your business model often requires navigating the currents.

Business Model Optimization: Navigating the Currents

Learn how understanding and optimizing your business model can help you define your competitive positioning, understand decision rights and work more efficiently.