Distracted from the Mission – A Friday Funny

By Michelle Malay Carter on August 1, 2008 

How much time do you spend a work negotiating and renegotiating with peers and colleagues in order to get your work done?? What if we systematized specifying role relationship accountabilities and authorities into job descriptions, leaving the people free to do their work without the constant relationship strategizing? Defining Role Relationships For example:? A human […]

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Are You Making Your Employees Choose? I’m OK. You’re OK. Let’s Fix the System

By Michelle Malay Carter on July 21, 2008 

The best thing we could do for employees to build engagement is simply get out of their way.? We have lived with conflicts of interest in the system for so long, they have disappeared into the landscape.? We simpy accept them, and no longer question their effects on our employees’ psyche or our business’ effectiveness. […]

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Titles Are Useless for Benchmarking or Measurement Purposes

By Michelle Malay Carter on July 16, 2008 

From the Mailbag I received an inquiry at the PeopleFit site asking about whether we had a database of role mandates by title – CEO, CFO, CIO, HR manager – available for subscription.? And the inquiry was coming from?someone inside?a global business consulting group. Specifically, the request was for:? “Role mandates, describing individual and shared […]

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Models Drive Diagnosis and Cure – Are You Committing Organizational Malpractice?

By Michelle Malay Carter on July 7, 2008 

Last week, I listed ten requisite managerial leadership behaviors (below)?from the Requisite Organization model.? -Two way managerial teamworking -Context setting -Planning -Task assignment -Personal effectiveness appraisal of direct reports -Merit review -Coaching -Selection and induction -Deselection and dismissal -Continuous improvement Systems Drive Behavior – Check Here First Assuming your leadership system is designed to elucidate, […]

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What Does Managerial Leadership Look Like? A Requisite Approach

By Michelle Malay Carter on July 2, 2008 

Elliott Jaques’ Requisite Organization model does a great job of defining a set managerial leadership behaviors which, within a Requisite Organization leadership framework,?would become explicit accountabilities of all managers.? Two way managerial teamworking Context setting Planning Task assignment Personal effectiveness appraisal of direct reports Merit review Coaching Selection and induction Deselection and dismissal Continuous improvement […]

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Join Me at BlogTalkRadio’s The Epic Living Hour – Friday, June 20

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 18, 2008 

I’ll be a guest on Eric Pennington’s BlogTalkRadio show, The Epic Living?Hour.? Please join us Friday, June 20th, at 12:30 EDT. Click here to both set up an email reminder for yourself and?to listen live.? If you care to participate on Friday, you can in at +1 347 945 5139. If that time is not […]

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Organizational Structure – What If…

By Michelle Malay Carter on June 18, 2008 

Jack Fallow had this to say about my lamentation on organizational structural failures:? Yes it is a problem that we under-engineer work environments and structures. Typically, the engineer, first decides that weight bearing strength of 1000lbs is necessary, then adds 50% for security. Next, they choose the best material to carry the strain. Then, they […]

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