Most organization design efforts begin too late. Not too late in the change process, but too late in the thinking. By the time new boxes are drawn and alignment initiatives launched, the most valuable design data, the informal patterns, tensions, and workarounds already shaping behavior, have gone unexamined. This is why I use the Galbraith … Continued
OD Triangle, a framework for standing with pragmatism, realism, and optimism in Organization Development. Actionable insights for navigating the complexities of OD.
Explore the complexity of subjective understanding, challenge traditional mindset theory, and discover new perspectives on organizational change. Embrace fluidity and collective intelligence for success.
Organization-development process using action-learning with entangled-trios – Gather, Engtangle, Empathy, Knowledge-Share GEEKS
We fill our pygmalion fantasies of being fortune-tellers or futurists — swallowing our confirmation bias, prognosticating our defecation.
Novelty and innovation emerge through people acting and sharing. Starting with local interactions, it spreads & takes on a pattern of change.
Resilience & bounding back quickly isn’t what’s needed now. What’s useful now are connections & robust networks to help our community.
Patterns and having a method to look for, understand, document, and share are how sense-making and navigating complexity happens.
When you are feeling stuck or uncertain, or the complexity has you feeling stuck – avoid fighting for order and simplicity. Ask SOLVEDcards questions.
When you wait, you miss useful complexity patterns that could create a better or more resilient future for you and your company.