Tag Archives: Organisational Design

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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Pragmatic Dissonance: Communities of Difference and the Limitations of Consensus

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

We come together in communities, but are driven apart by our differences: in a systemic view of change, we may need to create the conditions for, and opportunity to, both agree, and dissent. It is unlikely that we will achieve … Continue reading →

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The New World of Work is Not Work

Posted on March 21, 2018 by

Yesterday i ran the first of six sessions in California, exploring aspects of the Social Age: we started by exploring where we go ‘Beyond Organisations’, and today i will move into ‘The Storytelling Leader’, before tackling ‘Innovation & Disruption’, and … Continue reading →

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Ecosystem change & Organisational Design [part 1]

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

Where will we go, beyond Organisations? Much Organisational Design today is based upon outdated principles of collectivism, and effect at scale, through hierarchy and control, in a world that sees the democratisation of innovation, a rebalancing of power, and evolved … Continue reading →

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Dual Paradigms of Disruption: System vs Ecosystem Change

Posted on November 29, 2017 by

This week i’ve been sharing my most recent writing around ‘Black Swans: Disruptions in Power’ at a conference in the US. This work is about types of disruption, the underlying power behind that disruption, and the inability of formal systems … Continue reading →

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A State Of Radical Complexity

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

When the banks collapsed in the last financial crisis, there was a phrase bandied about, that some were ‘too big to fail’. This week i’ve been pondering something of the opposite: are some organisations ‘too big to succeed’. I’m not … Continue reading →

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Sketching On The Design Principles For The Socially Dynamic Organisation

Posted on June 8, 2017 by

A month or two ago i shared ‘Design Principles for the Socially Dynamic Organisation‘, an early sketch of where we could go next in organisational design. I feel we must move beyond a model of organisation that relies on vertical … Continue reading →

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