Category: Organization Design
Employee Empowerment demystified Part II
Most empowerment programs aren’t empowerment at all if a manager gives up some authority only he can give. So let’s start the other way around: Reverse delegation assumes an employees can take any decision except for what he doesn’t feel like and what has been set as constraints. So how do we do this?
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The danger of stability
Most organizations nowadays know that the world around them changes fast. Yet for many organizations, stability is still the default state. Using methods aimed at stability can be dangerous. We tend to focus on doing things right, where we should focus on doing the right things.
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Employee Empowerment demystified Part I
It’s not that traditional management techniques are wrong per se, but they are no longer the most appropriate way to face today’s complexity. So organizations are struggling to implement alternative ways of managing like employee empowerment. This article provides simple yet powerful tools you can use today.
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From Silos to Value Streams
What I do find fascinating is why most large organizations seem to be unwilling or unable to change their silo structure. Whatever the reasons, in this article we will explore some practical ways to dampen the negative effects of silos, and we provide some ways to break them down once and for all.
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Shifting the Burden – Using Systems Thinking to build high-performing teams
In this article we take a Systems Thinking perspective to look at building high performing teams. This allows us to identify the common trap of applying symptomatic solutions instead of a fundamental one. It explains a common patterns I see of supposedly strong teams that are in fact very inward-looking.
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