Why We Don’t See the Forest for the Trees – A Cultural Thing?
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 27, 2008
Steve Roseler at All Things Workplace reported on a research study that examined cultural influences upon perception. Systems Drive Behavior – Let’s Use Systems Design for Obtaining Engagement Just in case you are new here, my blog is a soap box for building awareness around the fact that – systems drive behavior!!!!! If we don’t […]
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In Systems We Trust – Do You Have a Leadership System?
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 25, 2008
Humans Find Consistency Comforting It’s often been said that McDonalds is the world’s most prolific food chain not because of its haute menu, but because of the consistent experience it offers its patrons. That consistent experience is achieved through systems. Would you like fries with that fact? Managerial Leadership Systems And Employee Engagement Research shows […]
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Employees Experience Your Organization at the Hands of Its Systems
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 23, 2008
Why is Engagement So Low? The reason employee engagement is so low these days is because organizations keep trying to fix individuals while paying no mind to the dysfunctional systems within which their employees are working. Were Your Management Systems Thoughtfully Designed or Left to Default? Systems drive behavior regardless of what is written on […]
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Good Friday Freebie – Digital Book: Organization Design, Levels of Work and Human Capability
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 21, 2008
Free Digital Book I authored a chapter in an edited book published last summer, Organization Design, Levels of Work and Human Capability. If you like the content of this blog and want to read more about the history and application of Elliott Jaques’ meta-model Requisite Organization, click here, fill out a survey for the Global […]
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Requisite Organization Design – A Work Levels Approach
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 16, 2008
Just like H2O can exist as ice, water, and steam, work can be stratified into discreet levels. ?Most single business units?have?five levels of work.? Each has a distinct role to play, and each calls for a different level of cognitive capacity. Level 5?Work The president at level 5 keeps his eyes on the industry and […]
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Read Mission Minded Management on Alltop
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 15, 2008
Guy Kawasaki has launched Alltop, a news aggregation website?with ?all the top? stories for 40 popular web topics.? Displayed on the site are the headline and first paragraph?of the last 5?stories from 40-80 topic sources. Alltop’s Strategy Alltop is like an “online magazine rack” displaying news from top publications and blogs.? Their goal is to […]
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Enabling Accountability by Providing Requisite Authority
By Michelle Malay Carter on March 3, 2008
Managers, by definition, are accountable for the output of their teams, but yet there seem to be so many excuses when things go wrong.? Why is that? Managerial Accountability Requires Managerial Authority If you want managerial accountability within an organization, you must pair it requisite authority.? Otherwise, you might as well be asking managers to […]
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Harvard Business Discovers Level 6 Work – The Strategy of Combining Two Models
By Michelle Malay Carter on February 26, 2008
In a former work levels post on strategy, I discussed how migrating a strategy upward by one level of complexity can give an organization a breakaway lead from its competitors operating at the lower level.? From “Or” Thinking to “And” Thinking, i.e. From Level 5 to Level 6 My historical example was that the US […]
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The RFP Courtship Dance – A Friday Funny
By Michelle Malay Carter on February 21, 2008
We’ve been talking about RFP’s this week.??You have to admit, the RFP process is essentially a courtship ritual.? The client is busy trying not to act impressed so the consultant doesn’t inflate their prices, while the consultant?gets jazzed at the thought of “winning” more work.? The unspoken dialog goes something like this:? Client:? How much […]
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What Values Does Your RPF Process Telegraph? Why We Don’t Respond to RFPs
By Michelle Malay Carter on February 17, 2008
I had the unique opportunity to offer feedback to an organization who sent us an RFP after reading one of my articles.? The organization specifically asks consultants who decline to submit an RFP why they are choosing not to submit a proposal. I’ve said before that? despite what is written in the organization’s annual report, […]
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