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We tend to think of grand organizations like corporations or empires coming about through deliberate human planning: designing the conceptual architecture for each imposing structure, brick by brick. But the shape an institution ultimately takes is not so much designed in advance by a master engineer as it is carved away by challenges to its outer
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Two of the major driving forces causing the changes were, and still are, technology and an up and down economic environment.
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•The pace of change and disruption in organizations means that the career stability our parents had (when people could spend an entire career advancing at a single company) is a thing of the past.
Gerry Valentine • The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World
Done right, the company and the culture will evolve, but the center will always hold.
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When an isolating mechanism is based on the collective know-how of groups, it may be strengthened by reducing turnover.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
well-established career paths and processes.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Before, individual contributions were still part of their job description. Now they need to divest themselves of individual tasks.
Stephen Drotter • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series Book 254)
become CEO’s of their new startup.
Gerri Brehm • Communicating with Style : A Handbook for DISCovering Yourself & Understanding Others
The mix of each that the firm requires (i.e., its ratio of senior to junior professionals) is primarily determined by the mix of client work, and in turn crucially determines the career paths that the firm can offer.