One of the reasons that doing agile transformations is difficult is that there is no one formula for how to do it. The starting point and context for each organization’s journey toward agility is different. Agile transformation: No formula, but common success factors
Mark Zuckerberg had just returned from paternity leave, and he wanted to talk about Facebook, democracy, and elections and to define what he felt his creation owed the world in exchange for its hegemony. Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
Every morning at the construction site down the street from my office, the day starts with a familiar hum. It’s the sound of the regular drone scan, when a small black quadcopter flies itself over the site in perfect lines, as if on rails. The buzz overhead is now so familiar that workers no longer look up as the aircraft does its work. It’s just part of the job, as […]
Throughout our careers, we are taught to conform — to the status quo, to the opinions and behaviors of others, and to information that supports our views. The pressure only grows as we climb the organizational ladder. By the time we reach high-level positions, conformity has been so hammered into us that we perpetuate it in our enterprises. In a recent survey I conducted of more than 2,000 employees across […]
I’ve spent years thinking and writing about one of the great mysteries of leadership and change: Why is it that the people and organizations with the most experience, knowledge, and resources in a particular field are often the last ones to see and seize opportunities for something dramatically new? How WD-40 Created a Learning-Obsessed Company Culture
Ethan Bernstein, Harvard Business School professor, and John Bunch, holacracy implementation lead at Zappos, discuss the online retailer’s transition to a flat, self-managed organization. They are the coauthors of the HBR article “Beyond the Holacracy Hype.” The Zappos Holacracy Experiment
Hierarchical organizational models aren’t just being turned upside down—they’re being deconstructed from the inside out. Businesses are reinventing themselves to operate as networks of teams to keep pace with the challenges of a fluid, unpredictable world. Organizational design. The rise of teams
Are the values of your organization living, breathing principles that all company leaders and employees uphold? Or are they just words on a piece of paper? Your organization’s values – when consistently put into action – define the culture. When all members of the organization live the core values, the organization projects a brand of integrity to employees and the outside world 7 Steps to Bring Values to the Center […]
For the past 25 years, Ra Paulette has been carving out man-made caves from the sandstone hills of New Mexico, and then sculpting these spaces into works of art he calls wilderness shrines.
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