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As in architecture, a variety of tensions help organizations to take shape and determine the speed at which a company’s leadership vision is realized. Whether these are tensions over leadership, future vision and strategy, or resource allocation, each tugs upon alignments that determine how a company completes its work.

By leveraging such tensions and learning to manage the informal relationships that organizations thrive upon, finance leaders … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Saj-nicole Joni | Source: Business Finance Magazine | Subjects: Finance, Management, Organizational Behavior

The fundamental task of organization design is, as it always has been, helping a leader move from defining strategy to putting in place an organization that enables the strategy to be executed predictably. An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

Content: Article | Author: John Beeson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

People really don’t want more business information. They are up to their eyeballs in it. They want faith—faith in you, your goals, your success, the story you tell. It is faith that moves mountains, not facts. Faith needs a story to sustain it—a meaningful story.

Content: Quotation | Author: Annette Simmons | Source: Context Magazine | Subject: Storytelling

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Why would you need forced rankings to get rid of bad apples if you were doing your job right as a company or leader? The best don’t wait for yearly evaluations—they deal with it now. It always amazes me that—as much as I admire GE in other ways—that they embraced six sigma (based on Deming-like logic that a system in control will have few if … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Big companies have plenty of great ideas, but they do not innovate because they need a whole hierarchy of people to agree that a new idea is good in order to pursue it. If one smart person figures out something wrong with an idea–often to show off or to consolidate power–that’s usually enough to kill it. This leads to a Can’t Do Culture.

The trouble … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ben Horowitz | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

The fundamental task of organization design is, as it always has been, helping a leader move from defining strategy to putting in place an organization that enables the strategy to be executed predictably. An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.
1. What is the business’s value proposition and it sources of competitive advantage?
2. Which … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: John Beeson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategy

An increasing number of global firms adopt a primary language for business operations—usually English. The problem: The practice can surface dormant hostilities around culture and geography, reports Tsedal Neeley.

Content: Article | Author: Kim Girard | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: International, Organizational Behavior

Almost all decisions, big and small, are choices between exploring new possibilities and exploiting old ones.

Content: Quotation | Author: Art Markman | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Motivation, Organizational Behavior, Personality / Behavior

Real engagement doesn’t flow from trying to convince yourself that what your company produces will change the world for the better–– a fairly fruitless quest for many. Rather, meaning must be sought in how the scope of our work allows us to reach our highest potential.

Content: Quotation | Author: Sally Helgesen | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Organizational Behavior

New research shows how companies can minimize conflicts within their top teams.

Content: Article | Author: Lindred Greer | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Passion is an overrated virtue in organizational life and indifference is an underrated virtue.

Content: Quotation | Author: Robert I. Sutton | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Companies can no longer rely on single individuals at the top to handle the complexity and uncertainty of the global environment. Instead, they need “leadership ensembles”—teams that can capitalize on diversity, stay current with developments in different parts of the world while anticipating future trends and their implications, and make smart decisions without sacrificing speed.

Leadership ensembles are groups of executives, each with distinctive expertise and … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Claudy Jules, Joshua J. Bellin, Nandani Lynton, Robert J. Thomas | Source: Accenture | Subjects: International, Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

We consistently find that people are more likely to agree with the statement, “I get the best outcome when we both behave cooperatively” than they are with “I get my best outcome when I behave competitively and they behave cooperatively.” But we still have about 15% who say that they get the best outcome when they exploit the other person’s cooperation unilaterally, and those 15% … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Nir Halevy | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Negotiation, Organizational Behavior

There’s nothing more annoying than a meeting that goes on and on and on. As a manager, it’s your job to make sure people don’t go off on tangents or give endless speeches. But how can you keep people focused without being a taskmaster or squashing creativity?

Content: Article | Author: Amy Gallo | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Just as the Net Promoter approach has strong descriptive and predictive power with customers, it works just as well in the realm of employee engagement. Loyalty leaders measure engagement by asking a handful of simple but predictive questions: Would you ask your friends and family to work in this company? Why? And would you recommend our product or service to your friends and family? What … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Domenico Azzarello, Frédéric Debruyne, Ludovica Mottura | Source: Bain & Company | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

Might your organization benefit from an internal coaching initiative? And, if so, how? Below we discuss three approaches to inform your decision making: recognizing internal coaching as a distinct competency, understanding the keys to effectiveness, and anticipating challenges.

Content: Article | Authors: Elaine Eisenman, Joseph Weintraub, Sam Perkins | Source: Babson Insight | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

One typically sees a number of recurring patterns of behavior that influence an individual’s effectiveness within an organization. I think of these patterns as leadership “archetypes,” reflecting the various roles executives can play in organizations and it is a lack of fit between a leader’s archetype and the context in which he or she operates is a main cause of team and organizational dysfunctionality … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

People often say, “I go with my gut,” and they forget that their gut is informed by huge amounts of data and past experience.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jonah Peretti | Source: FORTUNE | Subject: Decision Making

This article introduces the MEL (Manager, Entrepreneur, and Leader) Index assessment tool. The instrument aims to give organizations practical insight on the integrative impact of three key kinds of personnel—managers, entrepreneurs and leaders—in both the short and longer term fortunes of the organization.

Content: Article | Authors: Philip A. Dover, Udo Dierk | Source: Babson Insight | Subject: Organizational Behavior