Intuiting Work Levels – Justin Foster’s Strategy Hierarchy
By Michelle Malay Carter on June 3, 2008
Jamie Notter mentioned coming upon Justin Foster’s idea of Strategy Hierarchy.? Justin does a great job of describing work levels 5, 4, and 3. Here’s Justin’s description: Vision – Develop the simple idea. This is very likely the original reason a venture or effort was started. In addition, the Vision is the picture of success […]
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Three Organization Design Principles – Why Engagement Sits at about 20 Percent
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 28, 2008
Organizational Engineering At PeopleFit, we consider ourselves organizational engineers.? Meaning, we use scientific knowledge and natural laws in order to design and implement structures, systems, and processes that realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria – i.e. we design requisite leadership systems which produce work enabling organizations rooted in trust, fairness, and accountability. It’s […]
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Insightory – A Management Information Repository
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 27, 2008
If you haven’t stumbled upon it yet, you should check out Insightory. It’s a platform for management professionals, academicians and graduate business students to share their knowledge and insights with the corporate world, solve management issues collaboratively, and network with peers who have similar professional interests. Their goal is to do for management knowledge what […]
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Cognitive Surplus Gone Bad at San Diego State
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 13, 2008
I guess the demands of the college life and fraternity membership aren’t enough to keep all students occupied. High cognitive capacity + Character issues = Trouble Undercover agents busted 128 suspected drug dealers at San Diego State University last week. Even Criminals Use Work Levels During the investigation, agents posing as students found their way […]
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When To Overhire – An Exception to My Rule
By Michelle Malay Carter on May 12, 2008
Talent Pipeline Development My posts last week on over hiring stirred many comments. Thank you! Bloggers love comments. And you, my astute readers, sniffed out the one instance when you might choose to over hire – when you are preparing for growth. A Conscious Choice not an Ignorant One However, overhiring as a conscious choice […]
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Operationalizing Innovation – Accountabilities by Work Level
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 28, 2008
I’ve said before that innovation should be an expectation at all levels, but innovation will look different at different work levels. All work has creative elements to it. Current Operations Versus Strategic Innovation at the bottom three levels of the organization will add value to current operations. Levels 4 and up should be adding “strategic” […]
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Matrix Organization Design – Don’t Go There
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 23, 2008
Manish Kaushik posted the following question on LinkedIn: What are the best ways to maximise work efficiency and achieve perfect interpersonal harmony in a matrix “multiple bosses” org structure – A) If you are one of the bosses, B) If you are the subordinate. Here’s my take: Multiple bosses is anything but efficient, and they […]
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Judging Employee Potential Is Easy – Making Meaning of the Shades of Gray
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 21, 2008
I had my semi-annual dental visit last week. No cavities! As the dentist read my x-rays, I thought, how can he tell anything from that? It just looks like shades of gray. I had the same level of amazement during my children’s ultrasounds. I consider myself fairly intelligent, but I couldn’t tell a foot from […]
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Requisite Organization Training Course – June 4 – Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 9, 2008
Now that I’ve bashed training as nothing more than lipstick on a pig, I thought I’d offer some. Quite a bit of what I write and rant is rooted in Elliott Jaques’ meta-model, Requisite Organization. On June 4, I’ll be leading a short course on some of the basics of the model and their implications […]
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If a Tree Falls in the Woods, How Will It Affect Its Performance Appraisal?
By Michelle Malay Carter on April 8, 2008
If a man speaks in the woods and there’s no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong? Being a woman, I found this humorous, I would credit the author but do not know who she is. On an organizational level, the question becomes: If a staff member gives advice to a line manager, […]
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