Posts Tagged with "system"
#9b: Options and constraints inherent in different sources of leadership power.
The source of a leader's power provides different options to achieve the same goal in any given situation. What matter is their leadership type — leading with or without authority — not their style, which is unique.Read more →
Reference #245: The First 90 Days
Leaders must be organisational architects.Read more →
Reference #246: The First 90 Days
Understanding organisational systems builds credibility with more senior people in your organisation.Read more →
Reference #247: The First 90 Days
A reorganisation is not always the solution to organisational issues.Read more →
Reference #248: The First 90 Days
Your organisation is an open system. It is affected by the external environment — such as customers, competitors, and suppliers — and by the internal environment — including morale and culture.Read more →
Reference #250: The First 90 Days
Being a system, your organisational architecture comprises distinct interacting elements. These must be aligned to work for the organisation to work well.Read more →
Reference #254: The First 90 Days
An organisation's structure is how it organises its people and technology to support its strategic direction.Read more →
Reference #255: The First 90 Days
Every organisational structure has trade offs. Your challenge is to find the right balance for your situation.Read more →
Reference #471: Organizational Culture and Leadership
An organisation is a socio-technical system. How it deals with survival in the external environmental, and how it organisations itself internally to deal with human problems of integration, are equally part of its culture. These problems are highly interconnected.Read more →
Seeing your organisation as a system
Have you had all the right elements for your team to perform, but didn’t get the results you wanted? Have you tried changing one thing, only for something else to break? I have. I know why. The secret comes from seeing your organisation as a system.Read more →
Are you an expert in your craft, or the system?
In my previous job, I was an expert. I was the first employee. I knew the ins and outs of the system. I helped the company grow. I was often the most senior person in the room. But in truth, I knew nothing. So, I quit.Read more →
