Are Hierarchies Obsolete in Today’s Dynamic Business World?

Several hundred large organizations around the world have applied an approach to organizing themselves called “Requisite Organization Theory”. This includes over 20 of Business Week’s “Most Admired U.S. Companies”. And yet you have probably never heard of it? This is not surprising as Requisite Organization Theory is not generally taught in US business schools and [...]

Changing Your Ideas about Employee Motivation

Most managers believe that the best way to motivate employees is with external rewards—money, perks, and other dangling carrots to get people enthusiastic about their job. But according to Daniel Pink in his new book “Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates US” motivation is created internally not externally and depends on peoples ability to [...]

Do you know your organization’s “Execution Quotient”?

“Execution Quotient” or “xQ” for short – measures the gap between an organization’s goals and how well it achieves them. It’s like measuring the organization’s IQ for achieving results. Why do so many organizations find it difficult to execute their strategies and achieve results? Harris Polling surveyed 2.5 million workers to ask about this and [...]

Time to Retire Retirement?

Ten-years from now 80% of the native born American workforce will be over 50! When these workers start to retire there will not be nearly enough young people in the workforce to take their place. This does not seem to be a problem right now as we are experiencing near historic levels of unemployment; however, [...]

Hire People with Organizational Grit!

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people” — so said the famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw.
For organizations seeking progress and change there seem to be too many reasonable people about! Where are the people who will take the [...]

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