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Don't get caught with the wrong good ideas

How Leaders Can Avoid Getting Caught Up with the Wrong “Good Ideas”

Have a few good ideas? Here are a few suggestions to help you determine which ideas to use and which to lose.

External Measurements

Don’t Over-Focus on External Measurements

Organizations should look both inside and outside their organization to benchmark performance. Examine your measurement systems to see if you have effective means of assessing progress.

Where have all the worker's gone?

Where Did All the Workers Go? (And How the Right Strategy Will Attract Them)

Why does it seem that everyone is struggling to find workers? These insights and tips can help your organization find and keep workers in these post-pandemic times.

Is Ambiguity Making Your Organization Less Effective and Efficient?

Is Ambiguity Making Your Organization Less Effective and Efficient?

These six suggestions can help resolve ambiguity in the work place by addressing the areas of possible organizational misalignment.

Ways of working

Organizational Resilience Series Part 3: Ways of Working

Designing ways of working with humans at the center starts with involving the workforce in the design process itself.

Re-architecting work to add value and meaning for people

Organizational Resilience Series Part 2: Re-architecting Work to Add Value and Meaning for People

Learn how re-architecting work – deliberately designing work in ways that allow human capabilities to flourish and focus their collective energies – can help create desired outcomes for organizations.

Organizational design - Adaptability

Organizational Resilience Series Part 1: Adaptability

Adaptability is a key component to building a resilient organization that can move forward confidently regardless of what the future holds.

Much like the military, both vision and strategy are necessary for organizational success.

Don’t Let a Weak Strategy Undermine Your Organization’s Vision

In business as in the military, both a clear vision and effective strategy are necessary for success. Explore the differences between vision and strategy and learn how to maximize them to set your organization apart.

Functional design teams mitigating risks and bridging silos.

Reaping Benefits, Mitigating Risks in Functional Structures

Functional design provides extensive benefits as well as challenges. To optimize the structure, leaders should ensure that functions operate within scope and that cross-organizational silos are bridged.

Overcome organizational silos with linking mechanisms

Dueling Departments? Overcome Organizational Silos with Linking Mechanisms

Does your organization have departments that always seem to be at war? Learn how to use linking mechanism to eliminate organizational silos and enable the success of your company’s strategy.