Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

By Michelle Malay Carter on February 16, 2009 

Jim Heskett at Harvard Business’ Working Knowledge has another question up for comments:? Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders? My Answer is Simple It is because we don’t understand work or the variations in humans’ ability to perform work.? When we try to match leaders to jobs, we are like 18th century […]

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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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Elliott Who? Elliott “MidLife Crisis” Jaques

By Michelle Malay Carter on April 10, 2008 

Where did the term ?midlife crisis? come from? How about ?corporate culture?? Who founded the Tavistock Institute (precursor to OD?s seminal home, the National Training Lab)? Who received a special award from General Colin Powell in 1992 for military leadership and instruction? Who created an actual science out of the arbitrary, highly subjective selection, promotion, […]

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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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