Sublime

diagnose a struggling change

three or four objectives for their team,

welcome give-and-take on key results from frontline contributors.

Smash departmental silos by connecting teams with horizontally shared OKRs. Cross-functional

Conduct effective conversations about the change at a group and individual level • Manage persistent resistance to the change • Demonstrate commitment to the change through their behavior

They are complex, participatory, interconnected, interdependent, and continually evolving systems, like ecosystems in nature. Form follows need. Roles are picked up, discarded, and exchanged fluidly. Power is distributed. Decisions are made at the point of origin. Innovations can spring up from all quarters. Meetings are held when they are needed.

This can become a virtuous circle. In the end, it is always and only ever about relationships and organizing.

For every project that matters to me, I’ve had judging committees for over a decade now. They’re not permanent structures; they’re temporary scaffolding. I think of them as pop-up workshops. For each project, I pull together a different mix of five to seven insiders and outsiders with complementary skills. The group bands, disbands, and morphs as