Organizational Silos? No One to Blame but the CEO

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 23, 2008 

In my last post, I said that the manager owns the output of his team, as it is his accountability to integrate the work of the team. Therefore, when organizational silos exist between the functions, the person who owns all the functions, usually the CEO,?is not doing his job to integrate the work of the […]

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Changing the Conversation about Work – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 17, 2008 

Have you heard – I’m OK.? You’re OK.? Let’s fix the system?? If you hadn’t noticed, I’m determined to change the focus of the conversations?being had about talent management, organization design, and leadership.? Why?? Because I imagine what work could be, and I want that for people.? AT&T does a great job of capturing “what […]

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Science Doesn’t Lie, But Liars Can Use Science (and Idiots too)

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 16, 2008 

The Invisible Killer – Dihydrogen Monoxide Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.? Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage.? Symptoms of DHMO ingestion […]

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Why We Resist Positional Power – One Third of Employees Have Managers Who Can’t Be Their Leader

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 15, 2008 

Positional power, like hierarchies, is getting a bad rap from the kumbaya crowd these days.? No one appreciates abuse of power, and I am not denying its prevelance.?? However, eliminating positions within organizations is ludicrous.? Positional power is not inherently a bad thing.? What is bad is the confounded systems and unvalidated criteria that organizations […]

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Are Your Employees Fully Present at Work? Coping with Convoluted Systems

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 8, 2008 

Much energy within organizations is channeled into coping and compensating for poor systems.? Instead of fixing the toaster, we set up entire departments of burned toast scrapers. Organizations could release a mother-lode of energy if the re-engineered and integrated their people systems, their organizational structure, and their managerial leadership frameworks to enable productive work. Then, […]

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. We Don’t Really Want Management Science

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 5, 2008 

I?read a post at Slow Leadership about the need for more management science and the love of the quick fix by managers.? The love of the quick fix is pervasive, not just with managers but with executives, Wall Street, and Boards as well.? A lack of science?is not a problem.? A large body of science […]

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Work Levels’ Link to Strategy and Productivity – With an Evidence Base

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 3, 2008 

In 2005, I attended a fascinating session led by Julian Fairfield at a Global Organization Design Society?conference.? In it, he discussed the relationship of work levels to strategy.? He presented a historical account of?organizations gaining a competitive edge by shifting their entire business strategy up by one level of complexity.? Because work levels is an […]

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Work-Levels Goggles – A Business Strategy Tool

By Michelle Malay Carter on January 2, 2008 

My last post was about work levels.? I gave an example of how sales work?looks different at different levels.? I’ve also said that innovation looks different at different levels. Work Level Examples from the World of Recruiting I was reading Amitai Givertz’s?Recruitomatic Blog which led me to an older?post by Jeff Hunter’s Talent Seeker blog.? […]

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