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Reinventing Management, Part II: What Happens When No One Is In Charge?
In Part I of this two-part series, we explored Frederic Laloux’s color-coded typology of organizational evolution, and I left you with this question: What color is your organization? Chances are that most of you responded either Orange or Green. If you are one of the...
Reinventing Management, Part I: What Color Is Your Organization?
Thanks to continued rapid developments in digital technology, there’s a new worldview, and it is likely to revolutionize the way we build organizations. According to Frederic Laloux, the author of Reinventing Organizations: A Guide for Creating Organizations...
Twenty-Eight Keys to Unlocking Organizational Culture
There are myriad reasons to investigate an organization’s culture. Employees may want to better understand the ecosystem in which they work. A job seeker may want to check out a prospective employer. A corporate suitor might perform due diligence for an acquisition or...
In Search of the Common Good
The vast majority of Americans are not happy with the direction of our country, and rightly so. We are a deeply fractured nation living through the most intense partisan divide of our lifetimes. Our elected representatives seem wholly incapable of compromise, much...
The Digital Fork in the Road Part II: The Choice
A few years ago, in a broadcast interview, the psychologist Wayne Dyer relayed that one of the most important lessons he had learned about fully healthy individuals came from Abraham Maslow’s study of self-actualizing people. According to Dyer, Maslow discovered that...
The Digital Fork in the Road Part I: The Problem
Most of us are familiar with the last three lines of Robert Frost’s classic poem, “The Road Not Taken”: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. As we move from the first wave of the Digital...