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Actualizing your Competitive Advantage

What is the solution to gaining and keeping a competitive advantage in your organization design? Learn to bring strategy back into your thinking and focus.

Accountability Mechanisms to Drive Organization Transformation

When kicking off a transformation, leaders need to hold themselves accountable as well as establish accountability mechanisms for everyone to ensure the best results.

Organizations finding opportunities to leverage the freelance talent pool

Opportunities to Leverage the Freelance Talent Pool

Learn how organizations can overcome four common barriers to hiring independent contractors.

Organization Transformation: More than Just Communications

Good communication is absolutely essential to achieving success in any organization transformation. But without three additional key elements, communication alone often fails to effect desired change.

Build the Right Project Team for Success

Diversity is key to creative genius—but there is more to diversity than most realize. Look for diversity in these 5 areas to get the best results from your small team.

Decision-Making in “Limited Visibility” – Are You Prepared?

Instead of reacting to crises of the day, learn how organizations can shift their focus to activities that help them win in the marketplace, providing tremendous advantage over the competition.

Preparing for contingencies in change management

Preparing for Contingencies in Change Management

There are many interesting parallels between leadership in the military and corporate America. While not everything that works for the military is suited to corporate change management, there are certain military ideas and practices that, when adapted to corporate use, can strengthen and enhance a company’s strategic planning and execution.

Implied Work in Organization Transformation

If you are familiar with the  Cube model of organization design, you know that Work Processes  is one of six elements of an organization that must all align with strategy if the organization is to attain its strategic goals successfully (the others being Structure and Governance, Information and Metrics, People

Take Time for a 24-Hour Holiday Re-Boot

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” —Oprah Winfrey In business, we are always in the pursuit of improvement: having more, being better, going faster, doing things cheaper, and so on. As a result, when you take the time sit back and look at business life

Organization Transformation

Ensuring Clean Hand-Offs in Organization Transformation

The idea of “passing the baton” in a relay race is often used as a metaphor for the handoffs that occur as work moves from one person or function of a business to the next. These transitions are critical junctures in organization transformation; being able to manage organization design “baton