MASTERING THE CUBE

Looking to replace your stumbling blocks with building blocks, and become a leader skilled at strategic organizational alignment?

Mastering the Cube helps business leaders and change practitioners develop a shared perspective on organization design and achieve positive business results.

Whether you are restructuring, consolidating, merging, acquiring, or experiencing new growth, organizational change need not be insurmountable. This book gives you the guidance you need to become a skilled Alignment Leader®.

Aligning a Multifaceted Organization

Organizations are like Rubik’s Cubes. A leader cannot twist one side of the cube without affecting the others. By identifying 8 Stumbling Blocks and replacing them with 8 key Building Blocks, Mastering the Cube lays out a comprehensive and definitive approach to engaging leaders in orchestrating complex change and building organizations that work.

Following the metaphor of an organization as a Rubik’s Cube, we have identified 8 common, but misguided moves of organizational change. These are Stumbling Blocks. But for each of these we offer an alternate move, or Building Block. These are solid principles or methods for leading organization alignment.

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8 Stumbling Blocks

Concentrating mostly on redrawing the boxes on the organization chart.

Selecting a new organization structure from a limited set of templates.

Limiting the work of organization design to just a few high-level leaders.

Aligning an organization to top talent.

Hastening through alignment to get on with the real work of leadership.

Believing that organizations cannot increase revenues and reduce expenses at the same time.

Offering simplicity to customers without adapting the enterprise accordingly.

Striving for a perfect organization, once and for all.

8 Building Blocks

Vetting all facets of the enterprise for their alignment to strategy.

Creating a unique, customized organization structure.

Involving key leaders and experts throughout the organization.

Aligning talent to strategy.

Recognizing that alignment is among the most crucial work done by leaders.

Using alignment as a tool to accomplish both growth and savings goals.

Offering simplicity to customers while managing complexity in the enterprise.

Maintaining alignment in a smooth and ceaseless flow.

Reviews from Industry Leaders

"This is a great step-by-step how-to manual on defining and changing the design of your company.

If you're facing such challenges and have only time to read one thing, read this.

It is omniscient, efficient and sufficient."

– Clayton Christensen - Professor, Harvard Business School 

When all 6 sides of the organization are aligned, we call this “Mastering the Cube.”

You can learn more about the proven cube model to Organization Transformation inside our book, Mastering the Cube. Get your FREE chapter today:

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