Tag Archives: Organisational Design

Complexity and Belief

Posted on March 10, 2020 by

This is a #WorkingOutLoud post exploring complexity, and the role of belief: it relates to several broader strands of work that explore the social structure of Organisations, and the mechanisms of change. At heart, Organisations are made up of components, … Continue reading →

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The Nature of Leadership

Posted on February 24, 2020 by

Leadership is an endemic term, more often used to describe a desired outcome than a specific set of skills or behaviours, and more often describing those things that we like or aspire to than to those that we actually experience, … Continue reading →

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Learning, Rehearsal, and Performance

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

When building the Socially Dynamic Organisation, we must ensure we have clarity on three spaces, and the respective leadership and individual behaviours to make them effective. Learning spaces, Rehearsal spaces, and Performance ones. Learning as an act of curiosity and … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic: The Tension We Need

Posted on December 16, 2019 by

In a short series of posts, i’ve been exploring the evolution of Organisational Design, to take us from a Domain based strength, to a more Socially Dynamic one. In this, the sixth post, i introduce the notion of Dynamic Tension, … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic [Pt 5]: the Organisation as Story and Belief

Posted on December 10, 2019 by

This is the fifth in a series of pieces entitled ‘From Domain to Dynamic’. Collectively they explore a new model of Organisational Design that moves beyond hierarchy, infrastructure, and control, and into social collaboration, communities, and Individual Agency at scale. … Continue reading →

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The Porcelain Organisation [Domain to Dynamic Pt 4]

Posted on December 5, 2019 by

This is the fourth in a series of articles exploring the evolution of Organisations, from ‘Domain’ to ‘Dynamic’. In the early pieces we explored the origin and evolution of Organisations, how they evolved from an Industrial Age heritage, and built … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic: A New Model of Organisational Design [Pt 2] – Forces of the Social Age

Posted on December 3, 2019 by

Yesterday i started a new series exploring the need for a new model of Organisational Design: the move from the Domain Organisation, to the Socially Dynamic one. I introduced a definition of an Organisation as an entity of ‘collectivism’ to … Continue reading →

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Domain to Dynamic: A New Model of Organisational Design [Pt 1]

Posted on December 2, 2019 by

The design of our Organisations of today is largely a legacy of industrial design, and the search for effectiveness at scale: it is a model that has served us well into the Digital Age, but may fall short in the … Continue reading →

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Ways of Working: Perspective Shift

Posted on October 15, 2019 by

A great many Organisations have a focus on future ‘ways of working’: sometimes expressed as a future culture, sometimes as specific digital skills, often as an approach to innovation or change. These programmes represent the normalisation of change, and the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Work: Belief and Currency

Posted on July 15, 2019 by

Many Organisations are actively engaged in exploring the Future of Work: their drivers include a desire to optimise their physical footprint (and save costs), engage and retain the best talent, reclaim a lost agility of old (or find a new … Continue reading →

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