Why Organizations Fail – By Work Level
By Michelle Malay Carter on September 4, 2008
Work Level 7 – Failure to identify or respond to global trends Work Level 6 – Failure to align divisional performance with the mission Work Level 5 – Failure to react to changes in objectives and targets Work Level 4 – Miscalculation of constraints across organizational units Work Level 3 – Misallocation of tools and […]
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Big Picture Thinker Miscommunication – A Friday Funny
By Michelle Malay Carter on August 22, 2008
We’ve been talking about how to “language” messages in order to make them satisfying to employees.? In my last post, I suggested that the language that individuals find satisfying and actionable might be tied to work levels and corresponding cognitive capacity. As you move up the work levels hierarchy, the use of language moves from […]
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Improving Communication with a Work Levels, Attractive Leadership Framework
By Michelle Malay Carter on August 20, 2008
In my last post I talked about the elusive holy grail of leadership – effective communication.??I plan to throw a new iron into the fire on this one by discussing how an understanding of work levels can improve communication within organization. Employee’s Want RELEVANT Communication Since each work level of an organization contributes a specific […]
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I AM Communicating, Now What?
By Michelle Malay Carter on August 18, 2008
Blog after leadership blog.? Book after leadership book claims to have found the Holy Grail of Leadership and Followership (engagement).? In case you’ve missed it, I will reveal it here. Are you ready? ?Communication!? My Invoice is in the mail. Now, go ask 100 managers if they do a proper job of communicating at work.? […]
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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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Cognitive Development Study Exploring Complex Reasoning
By Michelle Malay Carter on July 14, 2008
A colleague of mine Richard McElroy, a doctoral student in the Fielding Graduate University?s Human and Organization Development program, under the guidance of Dr. Michael Commons, Harvard Medical School?s Department of Psychiatry, is conducting a cognitive development study to explore levels of complex reasoning in the executives and managers. One of my favorite topics! He […]
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Can We “Luck” Our Way into Effective Organization Structure? A Friday Funny
By Michelle Malay Carter on June 26, 2008
If we don’t really understand work levels or human cognitive capability?in terms of levels, what do you think the probability is that we will luck our way into effective organizational structure to carry out our strategy and live our values? As probable as this, I suspect… I’m OK.? You’re OK.? Let’s fix the system!? It […]
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Michelle Malay Carter Interview on the Epic Living Hour
By Michelle Malay Carter on June 23, 2008
As promised, here is my Friday interview with Eric Pennington on his Epic Living Hour radio show. I’m OK.? You’re OK.? Let’s fix the system.
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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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Structural Failures within Organizations – Close is Not Good Enough
By Michelle Malay Carter on June 17, 2008
Steve Roesler throws out the concept of applied management in his latest post?on employee survey research.? I couldn’t agree more that we need more applied management within organizations. And I would ask, just what are we applying? Is Close Good Enough? Engineers take natural laws and science-based knowledge and use this inform to inform their […]
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