What Employees Want for Christmas – The Gift of Clarity
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 22, 2008
-A clear picture of their role, and clear assignments. -A role matched to their current cognitive capability level. -Accountability matched with requisite authority. -A manager who adds value to their thinking.? (aka has cognitive capacity one level higher than the employee) -Explicitly defined role relationships with others?as arranged by their manager.? Employees?shouldn’t be left to […]
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Who Gets a Seat at the Table? What are You Trying to Do?
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 15, 2008
I mentioned Warren Kinston in a previous post.? He is a high level thinker in the areas of values, hierarchies, and organizational structure. I usually have to read his work more than once, and I walk away with some kernels of insight.? Not because there are only a few kernels to be had, but because […]
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Innovation at Work Level 1 – A Friday Fascinating
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 12, 2008
My post, Innovation Snobbery Is Not Serving Organizations, which started as?my response to Harvard Business online’s question, What’s Management’s Role in Innovation?,?is one of my most visited posts. Biased Expectations = Limited Potential My contention is that all work is creative and all humans are wired to work.? All levels of the organization are accountable […]
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Requisite Organization Introduction Public Course – January 7, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 1, 2008
For those of you interested in learning the fundamental elements of Requisite Organization, we’re having another public course.? Love to see you there! Quite a bit of what I write and rant is rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization. On January 7th, I’ll be co-leading a short course on some of the basics of […]
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CEO Leadership – Key Points to Understand
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 23, 2008
Elliott Jaques wrote Social Power and the CEO: Leadership and Trust in a Sustainable Free Enterprise System?in 2002.? It’s worth reading.? If you don’t care to read the whole book, an excellent summary was published by Business Book Review. A reprint of the review was published in Organization Design, Levels of Work & Human Capability […]
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Speaking of Faulty Assumptions – A Friday Funny
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 14, 2008
We’ve been talking about faulty assumptions and problem framing this week.??When we misfire on root cause, we can harm people with misguided?”therapies”.?? What conclusion do you jump to when you see the image below?? Invest 10 seconds to see if you are right. ? ?
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Requisite Weekend Transformation? How Are You Framing Your Organizational Issues?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 12, 2008
Folklore has it that Elliott Jaques, the author of the meta model, Requisite Organization, used to say you could transform an organization over the weekend by restructuring an organization to align with the requisite model. Requisite Organization Design Principles That means, among other things,?re-aligning as necessary to meet the three requisite organization design criteria. Conceptually […]
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Requisite Organization Resources – Talent Management, Accountability, and More
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 10, 2008
For those of you interested in Requisite Organization,?Don and Bonnie Fowke, management consultants from the New Management Network, are hosting a weekly internet radio show exploring various management topics and methodologies. Below are summaries of their last two shows.? You can access them here. Talent Management Don Fowke of Toronto explores how a talent management […]
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Male Boss or Female Boss? A Friday Funny
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 7, 2008
As a blogger I try to not only to be an observer of human and organizational behavior but also?to offer practical, actionable solutions to all that ails organizations. ? Warning – The clip below?is merely a comedian’s observations with no actionable content whatsoever.? You can take it for what it is – a hoot!? Or […]
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The Employee Contract – Are We Buying Outputs or Renting Capability?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 4, 2008
Expanding upon my last post on managerial accountability … when you hire an employee, my friend and colleague Herb Koplowitz says, “You are renting employee capability not buying outputs.” Herb helped write the FAQ section for the Global Organization Design Society which has just redesigned its website.? Check it out here.? It has a large,?free […]
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