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...
Three-Tier Management System In order to ensure that work gets done, organizations need a systematic approach to managerial leadership that clarifies the accountabilities for every managerial leader (anyone who manages people) in the organization and helps them ensure...
Accountability Based Management Accountability based management is one of the most important principles in our work with our clients. It goes without saying that in order to be accountable for a body of work and the attendant outputs, an individual in a role has to be...
Cross-boundary Work In this week’s blog, we will delve into what we believe to be one of the most common sources of tension and organizational dysfunction (it shows up in almost all of our projects)—the problems that arise as people try to work effectively across...
Managing Change in Organizations In a recent article in our ongoing series “Organizations that Work” we talked about how our unique approach to organizational design, implementation and sustainment focuses on four key areas to assure success and manage risk at all...
