Research tagged with "Org Design"

Enhancing organizational performance involves shifting from a task-based to a problem-solving model. The five-step process: factoring problems, assigning them to teams, mapping non-problem-solving work, ensuring the right leadership roles, and starting the strategy process creates clarity and velocity. These steps transform employees from order-takers to owners, fostering a high-performing culture.

Boeing was once synonymous with quality and safety. But as focus shifted from customers to stakeholders, their culture eroded, and with it their planes and reputation. This fate could have been avoided using three leadership techniques: health checks, goal checks, and skill checks.

Organizational structures are crucial to an operating model, yet constant re-orging significantly drains motivation and performance. So what's an executive team to do? Align to six first principles: form follows function, reporting lines are powerful enough, strengthen the horizontals, focus on feedback loops, align the strengths and passions, and finally, structure is a part of a system.

Too many organizations are struggling to adapt to a changing world because of their bureaucracies. The time is now to dismantle them. Address the four main root causes of bureaucracy: skill gaps, motivation gaps, time gaps, and knowledge gaps.

Middle management has gotten far too bureaucratic, demanding, and dull. Here's a fice-step playbook for making middle management impactful and exciting again.

In our gut, something about blame feels wrong. Yet even in high-performing organizations, blame is common. It's time we unpack blame - why it happens, why it hurts performance, and what to do about it.