Sublime

Impulsive-Red Organizations don’t scale well for those reasons—they rarely manage to keep in line people who are separated from the chief by more than three or four degrees.

The first component of a responsive enterprise is an executive vision that expresses how the organization intends to prosper in the future.

every aspect of a practice group’s affairs, from practice development to hiring, from economic structure to governance, will be affected by its relative positioning on this spectrum.

Rather than discrete categories, the expertise, experience, and efficiency labels are obviously meant to describe only points along a spectrum of practice

They promote internal networking.

Tie recognition to company goals and strategies.

As a leader’s seniority increases, that leader should make fewer decisions.

Replace competitive ratings and stack rankings with transparent, strength-based, multidimensional criteria for performance evaluations. Beyond the numbers, consider a contributor’s team play, communication, and ambition in goal setting.

You have to help them move from the way they used to think, to a new frame of reference.