What makes someone who is so successful in one organization fail in a different one? I have my theories - would love to hear yours. Please comment.
Category: Organizational Design
Organizational Debt: It’s Not Just for Start-Ups
Back in the dark ages before 2019, I read a great blog post by Stanford Professor, Steve Blank, about Organizational Debt. Organizational Debt includes, as Blank put it, “all the people/culture compromises made to ‘just get it done’”. This includes taking shortcuts in organizational design, such as how you structure and reward your teams. How you communicate …
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Myers Briggs of an Organization
Have you ever thought about the Myers-Briggs of your organization? I worked with a company once that I thought was INFP. In M-B speak, if you say someone is INFP, that means that they tend to take their energy from within not from outside sources, that they rely on their own intuition more than data …
The Birthday Cake
I was talking to someone the other day who works from time to time on photo shoots. She described the personalities – generic not specific – of the participants: the photographer, the money (the client for whom the photos are being taken), wardrobe, make-up, hair, oh and the model. Each person a large personality who …
Nine to Five
While I was in Mexico, I was reminded of the movie, 9 to 5. We were visiting the office of a client, an open plan office with hundreds of people sitting at long tables facing each other with a short, perforated screen maybe 6-8” high between each person and the person they were facing. From …
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