Why “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is misleading I’ve never liked Drucker’s assertion that “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Let me tell you why I think it’s misleading at best, and downright dangerous in some cases. And if you’d like to see a little more...
The three most important things you can do for your team If you’re a manager in an organization of any size, it’s almost certain that you interact with, manage, or are on a team of some nature. Teams are a fundamental, foundational element of how work is distributed...
Management Resource Planning Management Resource Planning (MRP) is one of the most important general management functions of the management team—managing the talent pool to ensure the sustainability of the organization in the long run. One of the guiding principles...
How to Build Effective Teams We have been working to help teams work better together for more than 30 years now. This work is borne of our passion for what we call highly effective teams, the definition of which has been, until very recently, subjective. I discovered...
Lateral Work A while back as part of our ongoing series “Organizations that Work” we wrote about what we call “Cross-Boundary Work”—which is work that requires two or more employees, who report to different managers, to collaborate to produce an output neither of them...
