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Designing from What’s Already There: Using the STAR Model for Sense-Making in Complexity

May 4, 2025

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

Company culture assessment opening questions

October 4, 2021

Company culture queries – discuss the boundaries and connections to know the work plus the work culture for feedback and change to happen.

Employee experience – what is it – how to measure it

February 27, 2021

Employee experience is easy to gather, make sense of, and understand. Challenges are asking, listening, then doing something with responses.

navigating personal and team complexity SOLVEDcards

November 7, 2020

Complexity, like lightning storms, arrives and SCREAMS for a time; you navigate it and learn, things calm, and it happens again.

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