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Decentralized Organization Structures Empower and Energize
High performing organizations that are thriving in today's chaotic world, are adapting and pioneering a wide variety of highly decentralized structures. They are giving up control of people so that people can control their own and the organization's destiny. More
High Performance Organization Structures and Characteristics
Research and experience shows that the shape and characteristics of high performing organization structures have a number of common features. More
Organization Structure Limits or Liberates High Performance
Improvement planning, process management, teams, skill development, and the like are either constrained or boosted by our organization's structure and support systems. If we are unhappy with the behavior of people on our team or in our organization, we need to take a closer look at the system and structure they're working in. More
Process Management Improves the Horizontal Flow
While our organizations have been organized vertically (with individual, isolated functions), their operations depend on processes that flow horizontally (across the organization). More
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls (Part One)
Process management is an invaluable part of disciplined management systems. Discover the Process Management approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success. More
Process Management Pathways and Pitfalls (Part Two)
Process management is an invaluable part of disciplined management systems. Discover the Process Management approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization's pathway to success. More
Systems and Structure Pathways and Pitfalls
Discover the Systems and Structure approaches that can help you to avoid the pitfalls and pave your organization’s pathway to success. More

I Predict… More Unpredictability

It’s a crazy time of year . A time for futurists, forecasters, and analysts to line up with seers, fortune tellers, and prophets to gravely tell us what 2009 has in store. Instead of tea leaves, anima Read More...

Happy Holidays

Understanding that a large percentage of people subscribe to my blog via email, I'm going to take a break over the next few weeks. The purpose is twofold. Firstly it will allow me to get into the spir Read More...

Pay Attention: The Growing Scourge of Multi-Tasking

Awhile ago I was called for an interview by CKNW radio in Vancouver to talk about the growing Blackberry problem. The BC Legislature has just banned politicians from bringing their Blackberrys into se Read More...

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