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The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
Aric Woodxplane.com
...we’ve been trained to think of organizations as homogenous and mechanistic, with a clear set of rules, a command-and-control structure, and the ability to leverage hierarchy to get things done quickly by issuing top-down directives to reallocate resources to meet objectives.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, • 18 highlights
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Though we didn’t call it such at the time of the Iraq war, a team of teams is an operating framework for an organization that we’ve seen work on the battlefield and in industry. It is grounded in the creation of true strategic alignment across an organization; executing disciplined, broad, and transparent communications; and decentralizing decision
... See moreChris Fussell, C. W. Goodyear, General Stanley McChrystal (Foreword) • One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
The Task Force still had ranks and each member was still assigned a particular team and sub-sub-command, but we all understood that we were now part of a network; when we visualized our own force on the whiteboards, it now took the form of webs and nodes, not tiers and silos. The structure that had, years earlier, taunted us from our whiteboards as
... See moreStanley McChrystal • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
But harnessing these clustered small-team networks into an inclusive, aligned whole that can be managed and directed is a unique challenge. At the core of this new organizational model is the idea of maintaining constant one-mission focus.