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Getting organizational redesign right
Organizations typically structure themselves around function or business unit or geography—but successful growth companies optimize around the job.
Clay Christensen • Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Actually, one could argue that every organization’s real structure looks like this: an intricate web of fluid relationships and commitments that people engage in to get their work done. Unfortunately, most organizations force a second structure, the one with boxes piled up in pyramid shape, on top of the first. No wonder it sits there so uneasily—i
... See moreFrédéric Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
more fundamental solution of the bottom loop: redesigning the entire project management system, and rethinking the ordinary roadblocks and formalities. But this strategy would take longer, and less attention is…
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Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Nevertheless we can distinguish between three broad types of approaches, a framing you might find helpful as you ponder the journey of your organization. I call them creative chaos, bottom-up redesign, and pre-existing template.