The DARE organization is: Disruptive: be able to disrupt itself, competitors and the environment all the time. Always looking at how to bring new business models that will disrupt the organization and others. Adaptive: refers to behavior that enables a person to get along in his or her environment with greatest success and least conflict with […]
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Most of us are following the analytical approach when we face complex problems. “Analytical approach” is the use of an appropriate process to break a problem down into the smaller pieces necessary to solve it. Each piece becomes a smaller and easier problem to solve (http://www.thwink.org/sustain/articles/000_AnalyticalApproach/index.htm). While this method might be beneficial for specific scenarios,
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If you spend well worth time using the tools of systems thinking to model any company, business or non-profit organization (with over ten people). You’ll find two main subsystems that compose the system you are analyzing. One subsystem is the management system, the variation of scientific management, administrative and bureaucratic management theories that still dominate
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According to the Oxford dictionary, the term Hierarchy has several meanings, but two of them are relevant to this post. 1) A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. 2) An arrangement or classification of things according to relative importance or inclusiveness. The second definition
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While working with organizations on their organizational structure (fit structure to strategy), I felt more than once, that for many organization the line between strategy and mission is blurred. Oxford defines strategy as “a plan that is intended to achieve a particular purpose.” I grew with the concept that business strategy is a combination of
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